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The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013

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Circumstances where the condition that the assessment phase has ended before entitlement to the support component F1... arises does not applyE+W+S

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7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4), section 2(2)(a) F2... of the Act does not apply where—

(a)a claimant is terminally ill and has either—

(i)made a claim expressly on the ground of being terminally ill; or

(ii)made an application for supersession or revision in accordance with the Decisions and Appeals Regulations 1999 or the Decisions and Appeals Regulations 2013 which contains an express statement that the claimant is terminally ill;

(b)the case is a relevant linked case;

(c)the case is one where—

(i)the claimant's entitlement to an employment and support allowance commences within 12 weeks of the claimant's entitlement to income support coming to an end;

(ii)in relation to that entitlement to income support, immediately before it ended, the claimant's applicable amount included the disability premium by virtue of their satisfying the conditions in paragraphs 11 and 12 of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations M1; and

(iii)that entitlement to income support ended only by virtue of the coming into force, in relation to the claimant, of the Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 M2; or

(d)a claimant is entitled to an employment and support allowance by virtue of section 1B of the Act (further entitlement after time-limiting) M3.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) a relevant linked case is a case mentioned in paragraph (3) where a period of limited capability for work is to be treated as a continuation of an earlier period of limited capability for work under regulation 86.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), the cases are as follows—

(a)case 1 is where—

(i)the claimant was entitled to an employment and support allowance (including entitlement to a component under section 2(2) F3... of the Act [F4or they were a member of the work-related activity group]) in the earlier period of limited capability for work; and

(ii)the previous period for which the claimant was entitled to an employment and support allowance was terminated other than by virtue of a determination that the claimant did not have limited capability for work;

(b)case 2 is where—

(i)the claimant was entitled to an employment and support allowance in the earlier period of limited capability for work;

(ii)the previous period for which the claimant was entitled to an employment and support allowance was 13 weeks or longer;

(iii)the previous period for which the claimant was entitled to an employment and support allowance was terminated by virtue of a determination that the claimant did not have, or was treated as not having, limited capability for work; and

(iv)it is determined in relation to the current period of limited capability for work that the claimant has limited capability for work or is treated, other than under regulation 26, as having limited capability for work;

(c)case 3 is where—

(i)the claimant was entitled to an employment and support allowance in the earlier period of limited capability for work;

(ii)the previous period for which the claimant was entitled to an employment and support allowance was 13 weeks or longer;

(iii)the previous period for which the claimant was entitled to an employment and support allowance was terminated before it could be determined whether the claimant had limited capability for work or was treated, other than under regulation 26, as having limited capability for work; and

(iv)it is determined in relation to the current period of limited capability for work that the claimant has limited capability for work or is treated, other than under regulation 26, as having limited capability for work; and

(d)case 4 is where—

(i)the claimant was entitled to an employment and support allowance (including entitlement to a component under section 2(2) F5... of the Act [F6or they were a member of the work-related activity group]) in the earlier period of limited capability for work;

(ii)the previous period for which the claimant was entitled to an employment and support allowance was terminated because it was determined that the claimant did not have limited capability for work or was treated as not having limited capability for work; and

(iii)it is determined in relation to the current period of limited capability for work that the claimant has limited capability for work or is treated, other than under regulation 26, as having limited capability for work.

(4) Paragraph (1)(b) does not apply to any period of limited capability for work to which regulation 87(2) applies until the determination of limited capability for work has been made following the determination of the appeal by the First-tier Tribunal.

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M1Paragraph 11 was amended by S.I.s 2002/3019, 2003/2379, 2007/719 and 2009/1488. Paragraph 12 was amended by S.I.s 1988/663 and 2022, 1989/1678, 1991/2742, 1994/2139, 1995/482 and 2303, 1998/2231, 1999/2556, 2002/3019, 2003/455, 1589 and 2379, 2004/1141, 2005/3360, 2006/2378, 2007/719 and 2010/1907.

M3Section 1B was inserted by section 52 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.

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