The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Requirement to undertake work-related activity

2.—(1) The Department may require a person who satisfies the conditions in paragraph (2) to undertake work-related activity(1) as a condition of continuing to be entitled to the full amount of income support payable apart from these Regulations.

(2) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are that the person—

(a) is entitled to income support;

(b) is subject to a requirement imposed under section 2A of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;

(c) is not a lone parent(2) of a child under the age of 3; and

(d) falls within paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1B to the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(3) and no other paragraph within that Schedule.

(3) A requirement imposed under paragraph (1)—

(a) must be reasonable in the view of the Department, having regard to the person’s circumstances; and

(b) may not require the person to apply for a job or undertake work, whether as an employee or otherwise.

(1)

‘work-related activity’ has the meaning given in section 2D(9)(d) of the 1992 Act.

(2)

‘lone parent’ has the meaning given in section 2D(9)(b) of the 1992 Act.

(3)

Paragraph 1 of S .R. 1987 No. 459 was substituted by regulation 2 of S.R. 2016 No. 67.