{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-2000/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-2000/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2000/0110987322",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Continuing entitlement dependent upon an interview",
  "text": "(1) A relevant person who has not attained the age of 60 and who is entitled to a specified benefit shall be required to take part in an interview as a condition of his continuing to be entitled to the full amount of benefit which is payable apart from these Regulations where paragraph (2) applies and–\n(a) in the case of a lone parent who is not entitled to either incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance, any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (3) apply; or\n(b) in any other case, any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (4) apply.\n(2) This paragraph applies in the case of a person who has taken part in a work-focused interview, or who would have taken part in such an interview but for the requirement being waived in accordance with regulation 7 or deferred in accordance with regulation 8.\n(3) The circumstances specified in this paragraph are that the lone parent–\n(a) has been entitled to a specified benefit for more than a year except where one of the benefits to which the person was entitled during the previous 12 months was incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance; and\n(b) has not taken part in an interview for at least a year.\n(4) The circumstances specified in this paragraph are those where–\n(a) a person is entitled to incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance following a personal capability assessment;\n(b) a person’s entitlement to an invalid care allowance ceases whilst entitlement to another specified benefit continues;\n(c) a person becomes engaged or ceases to be engaged in part-time work;\n(d) a person has been undergoing education or training arranged by a personal adviser and that education or training comes to an end; and\n(e) a person who has not attained the age of 18 and who has previously undertaken an interview attains the age of 18.\n(5) In this regulation–\n“lone parent” means a person who has no partner and who is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child;\n“personal capability assessment” means an assessment in accordance with regulations made under section 171C of the Contributions and Benefits Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 171C was inserted by section 61 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2000/0110987322/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:19:11.403123+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}