There is also a special provision for existing one-parent family payment recipients whose children are in full-time education. In this case, payment will continue until the end of the 2012-13 academic year or until the child reaches the age of 22, whichever is the earlier. To encourage participation in education and employment, from the enactment of the Bill to the end of 2016, an existing recipient who leaves the scheme to take up employment or a course of education will be allowed back on the scheme under the new age conditions of the six-year phasing out period if he or she subsequently loses his or her job or the course finishes. If a parent is still in need of income support when the youngest child reaches the age of 13, he or she may be able to claim jobseeker's allowance or another appropriate income support payment - or, if in employment, family income supplement.

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