The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996

[F1Circumstances in which an allowance is not to be payable

27A.—(1) A jobseeker’s allowance is not to be payable for the period prescribed in regulation 27B if either the first or the second condition is satisfied.

(2) The first condition is satisfied if a claimant (“C”)—

(a)fails to attend on the day specified in a relevant notification;

(b)makes contact with an employment officer in the manner set out in a relevant notification before the end of the period of five working days beginning with the first working day after the day on which C failed to attend on the day specified; and

(c)fails to show good cause for that failure to attend.

(3) The second condition is satisfied if—

(a)C attends on the day specified in a relevant notification, but fails to attend at the time specified in that notification;

(b)the Secretary of State has informed C in writing that a failure to attend, on the next occasion on which C is required to attend, at the time specified in a relevant notification, may result in C’s entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance ceasing or the benefit not being payable for a period;

(c)C fails to attend at the time specified in a relevant notification on the next occasion;

(d)C makes contact with an employment officer in the manner set out in a relevant notification before the end of the period of five working days beginning with the first working day after the day on which C failed to attend at the time specified; and

(e)C fails to show good cause for that failure to attend.]

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