The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000
These Regulations amend the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland)1996 (“the principal Regulations”) to provide the mechanism whereby certain couples of a description prescribed in new regulation 3A of the principal Regulations (“joint-claim couples”) (inserted by regulation 2(2)) shall only be entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance if they make a claim for it jointly and both members comply with the conditions for entitlement to that benefit. Regulation 2(2) also provides for continuity of claims and awards when a joint-claim couple cease to be, or become, such a couple (new regulations 3B and 3C) and where a joint-claim couple may still be entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance, even though they have not made a joint claim (new regulation 3E). New regulation 3F makes provision for transitional case couples and new regulation 3G provides that information about the joint claim may be supplied to both members of the joint-claim couple.