The Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulations 2002

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8.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), persons who, on the day on which the claim for a specified benefit is made or the requirement to take part in an interview under regulation 4 or 7(2) arises or applies—

(a)are engaged in remunerative work; or

(b)are claiming, or are entitled to, a jobseeker’s allowance,

shall be exempt from the requirement to take part in an interview.

(2) Paragraph (1)(b) shall not apply where—

(a)a joint-claim couple (as defined for the purposes of section 1(4) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 M1) have claimed a jobseeker’s allowance; and

(b)a member of that couple is a person to whom regulation 3D(1)(c) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 M2 (further circumstances in which a joint-claim couple may be entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance) applies.

(3) [F1A person who, on the day on which the claim for a specified benefit is made or the requirement to take part in an interview under regulation 4 or 7(2) arises or applies is—

(a)required to take part in an interview; or

(b)not required to take part in an interview by virtue of—

(i)a waiver of a requirement; or

(ii)a deferment of an interview,

under the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2003 [F2or regulation 2A [F3or 2B] of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2000] shall be exempt from the requirement to take part in an interview.]

Textual Amendments

Marginal Citations

M11995 c.18; the definition of “joint-claim couple” was inserted by the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999, section 59 and Schedule 7, paragraph 2(4)(b).

M2S.I. 1996/207; regulation 3D was inserted by S.I. 2000/1978 and amended by S.I. 2001/518.