The Employment Protection (Recoupment of Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support) Regulations 1996
These Regulations, which come into force on 7th October 1996, replace the Employment Protection (Recoupment of Unemployment Benefit and Supplementary Benefit) Regulations 1977 as amended. The Regulations make provision for the recovery by the Secretary of State from an employer of sums on account of jobseeker’s allowance and income support out of a prescribed part of an amount awarded by an industrial tribunal in certain proceedings brought by an employee against an employer (i.e. those proceedings listed in the Schedule to the Regulations).The new Regulations are in part consequential upon the introduction of jobseeker’s allowance on 7th October 1996 but also update the provisions dealing with the determination of any question as to the amount of benefit which is recoverable and for the review of that determination.