The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Amendment of the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003

4.—(1) The Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), after paragraph (1), insert—

“(2) For the purposes of these Regulations a person is to be treated as responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child only where the person would be treated as being responsible for, and a member of the same household as, such a child under regulations 15 and 16 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(2), if references in those Regulations to income support were to a specified benefit.”.

(3) For regulation 7 (exemption)(3), substitute—

“7.   A partner who, on the day on which the requirement to take part in an interview arises or applies under regulation 3, 3A or 6(2) is—

(a) in receipt of a specified benefit as a claimant in his own right, or

(b) a member of a couple, one of whom is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child under the age of one,

is exempt from the requirement to take part in an interview.”.

(1)

S.I. 2003/1886

(2)

S.I. 1987/1967.

(3)

Regulation 7 was amended by S.I. 2008/759, regulation 2(1) and (6).