Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013

2.—(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3 (schemes for assisting persons to obtain employment)—

(a)omit paragraphs (2), (3) and (8A);

(b)before paragraph (9) insert—

“(8C) The Work and Health Programme is a scheme designed to assist a claimant who is long-term unemployed in which, for a period of up to 456 calendar days, the claimant is given such support, and required to participate in such activity, as the provider of the Work and Health Programme considers appropriate and reasonable in the claimant’s circumstances to assist the claimant to obtain and sustain employment.”; and

(c)in paragraph (9) omit the definitions of “EHC plan”, “Learning Difficulty Assessment” and “work history”.