The Social Security (Coronavirus) (Further Measures) Regulations 2020

Old style JSA – availability for employment and actively seeking employment

7.—(1) As a consequence of the outbreak of coronavirus disease, a person who has an award of old style JSA is to be treated as—

(a) available for employment; and

(b) actively seeking employment,

for the purposes of the Jobseekers Act 1995(1).

(2) This regulation applies for a period of 3 months beginning with the date that these Regulations come into force and the Secretary of State may extend that period for all cases or any class of case where it appears expedient as a consequence of the continuation of the outbreak of coronavirus disease.

(3) In this regulation, “old style JSA” means a jobseeker’s allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995 as that Act has effect apart from the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 that remove references to an income-based allowance.

(1)

See section 6(1) for the meaning of “available for employment” and section 7(1) for the meaning of “actively seeking employment”.