The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000

Exemptions E+W+S

5.—(1) The following claims for a specified benefit do not give rise to an interview under regulation 4–

(a) claims by persons who at the time the claim is made are engaged in remunerative work;

(b) [F1 except in a case to which paragraph (1A) applies,] claims for a specified benefit where the person making the claim is also claiming a jobseeker’s allowance;

(c) [F2 except in a case to which paragraph (1A) applies,] claims for a specified benefit where, at the time the claim is made, the person making the claim is entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance;

(d) claims by persons who are not present in, and who do not normally reside in, Great Britain.

[F3 (1A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(b) and (c), a claim for a specified benefit shall give rise to an interview under regulation 4 where—

(a) at the time the claim is made, the person making the claim is a member of a joint-claim couple as defined for the purposes of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996; and

(b) it has been decided that that person is a person to whom a paragraph of Schedule A1 to those Regulations applies (categories of members of joint-claim couples who are not required to satisfy the conditions in section 1(2B)(b) of the Jobseekers Act 1995).]

(2) The following claims for housing benefit and council tax benefit do not give rise to an interview under regulation 4–

(a) claims made on the expiry of a benefit period;

(b) claims made in consequence of the claimant moving from one dwelling to another within the same local authority area.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 5(1)(b) inserted (19.3.2001) by The Social Security (Joint Claims: Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1982), regs. 1, 3(a)

F2 Words in reg. 5(1)(c) inserted (19.3.2001) by The Social Security (Joint Claims: Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1982), regs. 1, 3(a)

F3 Reg. 5(1A) inserted (19.3.2001) by The Social Security (Joint Claims: Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1982), regs. 1, 3(b)