Non-means Tested Benefits

This guide focuses on those non-means tested areas of the Jobseeker's Allowance and other benefits that raise important issues before Social Security Appeal Tribunals and the Court. It includes the Jobseekers Act 1995, the abolition of good cause for delay in claiming and rules on backdating.

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This guide focuses on those non-means tested areas of the Jobseeker's Allowance and other benefits that raise important issues before Social Security Appeal Tribunals and the Court. It includes the text of, and commentary on, the Jobseekers Act 1995, as well as material on rules for making claims and appeals, the abolition of good cause for delay in claiming and rules on backdating, provisions on decision-recording tribunals and a set of Computation of Earnings Regulations. The text is divided into the following sections: administration, adjudication and general benefit matters; disability benefits; maternity benefits; widow's benefit and retirement pensions; unemployment, sickness and invalidity benefits; jobseeker's allowance; incapacity benefit and incapacity for work; statutory sick pay; children and guardians; and industrial injuries and prescribed diseases.