PART IIE+W+SWORK-FOCUSED INTERVIEWS

ExemptionsE+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)[F1except 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)[F2except 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.

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