Claims for two or more specified benefits
9.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a relevant person who would otherwise be required under regulation 4(1) to take part in interviews relating to more than one specified benefit—
(a)is only required to take part in interviews in connection with one specified benefit during any period when the relevant person or, where the relevant person is a partner, the benefit recipient is in receipt of two or more specified benefits concurrently; and
(b)those interviews shall count for the purposes of each of those benefits.
(2) Where a relevant person who is in receipt of at least one specified benefit makes a claim for income support or incapacity benefit then—
(a)he is required to take part in an interview under regulation 3, and
(b)the next requirement to take part in an interview shall arise under regulation 4(1) in accordance with paragraph (2)(a) of that regulation.