SCHEDULE 3 Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996

Amendment of regulation 146A (meaning of “couple in hardship”)

5.  In regulation 146A(1)(e)—

(a) in paragraph (i), after “Benefits Act”, insert “, the care component of child disability payment at the highest or middle rate in accordance with regulation 11(5) of the DACYP Regulations”;

(b) in paragraph (ii), after “disability living allowance”, insert “, child disability payment”;

(c) after paragraph (iii), insert—

“(iiia) has claimed child disability payment and has an award of the care component of child disability payment at the highest or middle rate in accordance with regulation 11(5) of the DACYP Regulations for a period commencing after the date on which the claim was made; or”.