Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook 2024/25Part 3: Other means-tested benefits and tax creditsChapter 12: Income-based jobseeker's allowance 2. The rules about your age
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2. The rules about your age
You cannot qualify for any type of jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) if you are pension age or over (see here). It is your age as the claimant that is relevant, not the age of your partner.
Note: you cannot usually qualify for income-based or joint-claim JSA unless you, and your partner, are 18. Special rules that may help you qualify for income-based or joint-claim JSA if you or your partner are 16 or 17.1s3A(1)(d) and (e) JSA 1995; regs 3A and 58 JSA Regs As no one can now make a new claim for income-based JSA, these rules are not described in detail here. See pp250–55 of the 2019/20 edition of this Handbook for details.
 
1     s3A(1)(d) and (e) JSA 1995; regs 3A and 58 JSA Regs »
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