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Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) is an unemployment benefit paid by the Government of the United Kingdom to people who are unemployed and actively seeking work. It is part of the social security benefits system and is intended to cover living expenses while the claimant is out of work.
If people do not have enough in National Insurance Contributions (e.g., because they have just left school or university), the other kind of Jobseeker's allowance, income-based, is being phased out and replaced by universal credit, started by the Welfare Reform Act 2012. This requires means-testing.
The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000: Image title: Benefits, Maternity pay, Benefits for parents and children, Maternity benefits, Asylum, SOCIAL SECURITY: Author: Software used: FOP 1.0: Conversion program: Apache FOP Version 2.1: Encrypted: no: Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) Version of PDF format: 1.4
The first, called Youth Allowance, is paid to young people aged 16–20 (or 15, if deemed to meet the criteria for being considered 'independent' by Centrelink). Youth Allowance is also paid to full-time students aged 16–24, and to full-time Australian Apprenticeship workers aged 16–24.
Related to programmes through the United Kingdom's Coalition Government's "Work Programme", [3] created by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Jobseeker's (Back to Work Schemes) Bill addressed situations where Jobseeker's Allowance claimants may be asked to work without pay in some circumstances. [4]
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File:The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Amendment Regulations 2002 (UKSI 2002-1701).pdf
English: These Regulations amend the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”). They implement the powers in section 19, 19A and 19B of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (“the Act”) as inserted by the Welfare Reform Act 2012, in relation to sanctions for failures to comply with requirements under the Act and the 1996 Regulations.