The Social Security Amendment (Joint Claims) Regulations 2001

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

4.  In the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999(1)—

(a) in regulation 1(3) (citation, commencement and interpretation) after the definition of “the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations” there shall be inserted the following definitions—

• ““a joint-claim couple” has the same meaning as in section 1(4) of the Jobseekers Act 1995;

• “a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning as in section 1(4) of the Jobseekers Act 1995;”;

(b) in regulation 26 (decisions against which an appeal lies), after paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following—

• “;or

  (d)

  under section 59 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999(2) (couples to make joint-claim for jobseeker’s allowance) where one member of the couple is working and the Secretary of State has decided that both members of the couple are not engaged in remunerative work,”;

(c) in paragraph 8 of Schedule 3A—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), after the words “section 3(1)(a)” there shall be inserted the words “or 3A(1)(a)”;

(ii) after paragraph (d), there shall be inserted the following—

• “;or

  (e)

  a joint-claim couple ceases to be a married or an unmarried couple,”.

(1)

S.I. 1999/991; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2000/1596.

(2)

1999 c. 30.