1. Introductory Text

2. PART I GENERAL

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and interpretation

   2. 1A. Disqualification period: section 6B(11) of the Act

   3. 2. Disqualification period: section 7(6) of the Act

   4. 2A. Prescribed offences: section 6B(14)(b) of the Act

3. PART II REDUCTIONS

   1. 3. Reduction of income support ...

   2. 3ZA. Reduction of income-related employment and support allowance

   3. 3ZB. Reduction of universal credit

   4. 3A. Reduction in state pension credit

   5. 4. Reduction of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance

4. PART III HARDSHIP

   1. 5. Meaning of “person in hardship"

   2. 6. Circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a person who is a person in hardship

   3. 7. Further circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a person who is a person in hardship

   4. 8. Conditions for payment of income-based jobseeker’s allowance

   5. 9. Provision of information

   6. 10. Applicable amount in hardship cases

5. PART IV HARDSHIP FOR JOINT-CLAIM COUPLES

   1. 11. Application of Part and meaning of “couple in hardship"

   2. 12. Circumstances in which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable where a joint-claim couple is a couple in hardship

   3. 13. Further circumstances in which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a couple in hardship

   4. 14. Conditions for payment of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance

   5. 15. Provision of information

   6. 16. Applicable amount of joint-claim couple in hardship cases

6. Part 4A Hardship: Income-related employment and support allowance

   1. 16A. Payment of income-related employment and support allowance to specified persons

   2. 16B. Requirements for payments under regulation 16A(1)

   3. 16C. Amount of payment under regulation 16A(1)

7. Part 4B Hardship: Universal Credit

   1. 16D. Payment of universal credit to specified persons

   2. 16E. Requirements for payments under regulation 16D(1)

   3. 16F. Period in respect of which payments under regulation 16D(1) are to be made

   4. 16G. The amount of payments under regulation 16D(1)

   5. 16H. Recoverability of payments made under regulation 16D(1)

8. PART V HOUSING BENEFIT AND COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT

   1. 17. Circumstances where a reduced amount of housing benefit and council tax benefit is payable

   2. 18. Circumstances where housing benefit and council tax benefit is payable

9. PART VI DEDUCTIONS FROM BENEFITS AND DISQUALIFYING BENEFITS

   1. 19. Social security benefits not to be sanctionable benefits

   2. 19A. Benefits to be treated as neither sanctionable nor disqualifying

   3. 20. Deductions from benefits

10. PART VII OTHER AMENDMENTS

    1. 21. Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999

    2. 22. Amendment of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Additional Rights of Appeal) Regulations 2001

11. Signature

12. Explanatory Note