The Social Security Amendment (Joint Claims) Regulations 2001

Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975

3.  In regulation 8A(5) of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975(1) (credits for unemployment)—

(a) after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(cc) a week in respect of which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance was not payable or was reduced pursuant to section 20A of that Act because the person was subject to sanctions for the purposes of that section, even though the couple of which he was a member satisfied the conditions for entitlement to that allowance;”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (d) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(dd) a week in respect of which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance was payable in respect of a joint-claim couple of which the person is a member only by virtue of regulation 146C of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996(2) (circumstances in which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable where a joint-claim couple is a couple in hardship);”.

(1)

S.I. 1975/556; regulation 8A was inserted by S.I. 1996/2367.

(2)

Regulation 146C was inserted by S.I. 2000/1978.