If you’re receiving Jobseeker Support as the sole parent of a child aged 14 or older, and another child comes into your household while you’re on the benefit, then you will be transferred to the Sole Parent Support benefit and you won’t have to be available for or looking for work until your youngest child is three years old. This has changed the old rule, where you would have only been able to get Sole Parent Support until your new child’s first birthday.
For example, if when you began receiving Jobseeker Support you had a child aged 14, you would have been required to be available for and looking for full-time work. If 18 months later you give birth to another child, you’ll be transferred to Sole Parent Support and won’t be required to be available for and looking for work (whether part-time or full-time), until your youngest child is three.