The Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulations 2002

Exemptions

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(1)) 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(2) (further circumstances in which a joint-claim couple may be entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance) applies.

(1)

1995 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).

(2)

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