(1) Regulations may provide for treating a claim for working family payment as having been made on a date earlier than the date on which it is received, where it appears to the Minister that the claimant would have satisfied the conditions for entitlement to working family payment during that period, but for the receipt by that person of jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed) or jobseeker's allowance.
(2) Where -
(a) in respect of any period any jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed) or jobseeker's allowance has been paid to or in respect of a person who, though entitled to working family payment by virtue of subsection (1), is not in receipt of that supplement, and
(b) that benefit or allowance is in excess of the amount which would have been granted to that person if he or she had been in receipt of working family payment,
the Minister may reduce any such supplement which is or may become payable to that person by the amount of the excess and t
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