The Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulations 2002

Requirement for certain lone parents to take part in an interview

4A

• (1) This regulation applies to a lone parent who—

• (a) is aged 18 or over and is entitled to income support and is a person to whom paragraph 1 (lone parents) of Schedule 1B to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 applies; and

• (b) does not fall within any other paragraph of that Schedule; ...

• (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (2) Subject to regulations 7 to 9, a lone parent to whom this regulation applies is required to take part in one or more interviews as a condition of continuing to be entitled to the full amount of benefit which is payable to him apart from these Regulations.

• (3) A lone parent who—

• (a) is required to take part in an interview under this regulation, or

• (b) has had a requirement to take part in an interview under this regulation ... deferred,

is not required to take part in an interview under regulation 4ZA unless this regulation ceases to apply to him.

Time when interview is to take place

Waiver of requirement to take part in an interview

Deferment of requirement to take part in an interview

Exemptions

Claims for two or more specified benefits

The interview

Taking part in an interview

Failure to take part in an interview

Circumstances where regulation 12 does not apply

Good cause

Appeals

Revocations and transitional provision

Amendments to regulations

Continuing entitlement to full amount of income support dependent on an interview: lone parents who fall within paragraph 1 of Schedule 1B to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

4ZA

• (1) Subject to regulations 4A and 6 to 9, this regulation applies to a lone parent who—

• (a) is entitled to income support;

• (b) falls within paragraph 1 (lone parents) of Schedule 1B (prescribed categories of person) to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987; and

• (c) has not attained pensionable age.

• (2) A lone parent to whom this regulation applies is required to take part in an interview if the lone parent has not taken part in or been required to take part in a relevant interview.

• (3) This paragraph applies to a lone parent to whom this regulation applies who is aged 18 or over and has—

• (a) taken part,

• (b) failed to take part, or

• (c) been treated as taking part,

in a relevant interview.

• (4) A lone parent to whom paragraph (3) applies is required to take part in an interview every six months after the date on which the lone parent—

• (a) last took part,

• (b) last failed to take part, or

• (c) was last treated as having taken part,

in a relevant interview.

• (5) An officer shall, except where paragraph (6) applies, conduct the interview.

• (6) An officer may, if he considers it appropriate in all the circumstances, arrange for a person who has not attained the age of 18 to attend an interview with such person as the Secretary of State may specify.

Requirement for certain lone parents to take part in an interview

Time when interview is to take place

Waiver of requirement to take part in an interview

Deferment of requirement to take part in an interview

Exemptions

Claims for two or more specified benefits

The interview

Taking part in an interview

Failure to take part in an interview

Circumstances where regulation 12 does not apply

Good cause

Appeals

Revocations and transitional provision

Amendments to regulations

Circumstances where the amount of benefit payable to a claimant is not to be reduced in accordance with regulation 12(2)(c)

12A

• (1) The amount of benefit payable to a claimant is not to be reduced in accordance with regulation 12(2)(c) if that amount—

• (a) is at the time the relevant decision falls to be made in respect of the current failure, being paid at a reduced rate in accordance with regulation 12(2)(c), regulations 7(3) and 8 of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2000 or regulation 8(1) and (2) of the Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014; and

• (b) was last reduced not more than two weeks before the date of the current failure.

• (2) In paragraph (1) “current failure” means a failure which may, in the case of a claimant who has an award of benefit, lead to a reduction in benefit under regulation 12(2)(c) in relation to which the Secretary of State has not yet determined whether the amount of benefit payable to the claimant is to be reduced in accordance with that regulation.

Circumstances where regulation 12 does not apply

Good cause

Appeals

Revocations and transitional provision

Amendments to regulations