(1) Subject to subsection (2), the weekly rate of continued payment shall be the amount payable to the person by way of an increase in jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance (as the case may require) in respect of each qualified child normally residing with the person immediately before that person takes up employment.
(2) In the case of a person who immediately before he or she takes up employment was in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, where the rate calculated under this section exceeds the rate of jobseeker's allowance which was payable to the person, the continued payment shall be payable at that rate of jobseeker's allowance.