The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000

Continuing entitlement dependent upon an interview

6.—(1) A relevant person who has not attained the age of 60 and who is entitled to a specified benefit shall be required to take part in an interview as a condition of his continuing to be entitled to the full amount of benefit which is payable apart from these Regulations where paragraph (2) applies and–

(a) in the case of a lone parent who is not entitled to either incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance, any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (3) apply; or

(b) in any other case, any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (4) apply.

(2) This paragraph applies in the case of a person who has taken part in a work-focused interview, or who would have taken part in such an interview but for the requirement being waived in accordance with regulation 7 or deferred in accordance with regulation 8.

(3) The circumstances specified in this paragraph are that the lone parent–

(a) has been entitled to a specified benefit for more than a year except where one of the benefits to which the person was entitled during the previous 12 months was incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance; and

(b) has not taken part in an interview for at least a year.

(4) The circumstances specified in this paragraph are those where–

(a) a person is entitled to incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance following a personal capability assessment;

(b) a person’s entitlement to an invalid care allowance ceases whilst entitlement to another specified benefit continues;

(c) a person becomes engaged or ceases to be engaged in part-time work;

(d) a person has been undergoing education or training arranged by a personal adviser and that education or training comes to an end; and

(e) a person who has not attained the age of 18 and who has previously undertaken an interview attains the age of 18.

(5) In this regulation–

“lone parent” means a person who has no partner and who is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child;

“personal capability assessment” means an assessment in accordance with regulations made under section 171C of the Contributions and Benefits Act(1).

(1)

Section 171C was inserted by section 61 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30).