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Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 43 Cited in Amendments 15 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2000/897
Year2000
  • These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 3rd April 2000.
    • (1) In these Regulations–(2) In these Regulations, a “relevant person" is a person who resides in an area identified in Schedule 1.“remunerative work" has the meaning prescribed in regulation 4 of the Housing Benefit Regulations; and“part-time work" means work for which payment is made and which is not remunerative work.(4) Where a claim for benefit is made by a person (“the appointee") on behalf of another, references in these Regulations to a person claiming benefit shall be treated as a reference to the person on whose behalf the claim is made and not to the appointee.(5) These Regulations apply in respect of a specified benefit claimed on or after 3rd April 2000.to a numbered section is to the section of the Act bearing that number;to a numbered regulation or Schedule is to the regulation in or Schedule to these Regulations bearing that number;in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation or Schedule bearing that number;in a paragraph to a lettered or numbered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph in that paragraph bearing that letter or number.
  • assessing a person’s prospects for existing or future employment (whether paid or voluntary) ;
  • assisting or encouraging a person to enhance his prospects of such employment;
  • identifying activities which the person may undertake to strengthen his existing or future prospects of such employment;
  • identifying current or future employment or training opportunities suitable to the person’s needs; and
  • identifying educational opportunities connected with the existing or future employment prospects or needs of the person.
    • (1) This regulation is subject to the provisions of regulations 5, 7, 8 and 9. makes a claim for a specified benefit to a designated authority;has not attained the age of 60 at the time of making the claim; andis not in remunerative work,(3) A designated authority to whom a claim is made shall arrange for the person to whom the claim relates and who is required in accordance with these Regulations to take part in an interview to have a personal adviser.(4) A personal adviser shall except where paragraph (6) applies conduct the interview.(5) The interview shall take place at an office of the designated authority or at such other place as may be notified to that person by a personal adviser.(6) Where the claimant has not attained the age of 18, the designated authority shall arrange for the claimant to have an interview with an officer of the Careers Service F41or with an officer of the Connexions Service.claims by persons who at the time the claim is made are engaged in remunerative work;F37except in a case to which paragraph (1A) applies, claims for a specified benefit where the person making the claim is also claiming a jobseeker’s allowance;F38except in a case to which paragraph (1A) applies, claims for a specified benefit where, at the time the claim is made, the person making the claim is entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance;claims by persons who are not present in, and who do not normally reside in, Great Britain.at the time the claim is made, the person making the claim is a member of a joint-claim couple as defined for the purposes of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996; andit has been decided that that person is a person to whom a paragraph of Schedule A1 to those Regulations applies (categories of members of joint-claim couples who are not required to satisfy the conditions in section 1(2B) (b) of the Jobseekers Act 1995) .claims made on the expiry of a benefit period;claims made in consequence of the claimant moving from one dwelling to another within the same local authority area.in the case of a lone parent who F

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