{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Entitlement ceasing on a failure to comply",
  "text": "(1) Entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance shall cease in the following circumstances—\n(a) if a claimant fails to participate in an interview on the day specified in a relevant notification, and fails to make contact with an employment officer in the manner set out in that notification before the end of the period of five working days beginning with the first working day after the day on which the claimant failed to attend;\n(b) if–\n(i) that claimant makes contact with an employment officer on the day specified in the relevant notification but fails to participate in an interview at the time specified in that notification, and the Secretary of State has informed that claimant in writing that a failure to participate in an interview, on the next occasion on which he is required to participate in an interview at the time specified in such a notification may result in his entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance ceasing or the benefit not being payable for a period, and\n(ii) he fails to participate at the time specified in such a notification on the next occasion; and\n(iii) that claimant fails to make contact with an employment officer in the manner set out in such a notification before the end of the period of five working days beginning with the first working day after the day on which that claimant failed to participate at the time specified;\n(c) subject to regulation 27, if that claimant was required to provide a signed declaration as referred to in regulation 24(6) and he fails to provide it on the day on which he ought to do so in accordance with regulation 24(10).\n(1A) In this regulation and in regulations 27A, 28 and 30—\n“relevant notification” means a notification under regulation 23 or 23A, other than a notification requiring attendance under an employment programme or a training scheme , under a scheme prescribed in regulation 3 of the Jobseeker's Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013, under a scheme prescribed in regulation 3 of the Jobseekers Allowance (18 - 21 Work Skills Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2014, under a scheme prescribed in regulation 3 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Supervised Jobsearch Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2014 , under the Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme or under the Mandatory Work Activity Scheme;\n“working day” means any day on which the appropriate office is not closed.\n(2) In this regulation, “an employment programme\" and “a training scheme\" have the meaning given in regulation 75.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 25(1) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions for Failure to Attend) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/509), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 25(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions for Failure to Attend) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/509), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(1)(a) substituted (2.4.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/443), regs. 1, 4(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 25(1)(b)(i) substituted (25.3.1999) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/530), regs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(1)(b)(i) substituted (2.4.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/443), regs. 1, 4(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 25 substituted (11.9.2000) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2194), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(1)(b)(i) inserted (6.4.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions for Failure to Attend) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/509), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in reg. 25(1)(b)(ii) substituted (2.4.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/443), regs. 1, 4(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 25(1)(b)(ii) inserted (6.4.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions for Failure to Attend) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/509), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 25(1)(b)(iii) added (6.4.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions for Failure to Attend) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/509), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in reg. 25(1)(b)(iii) substituted (2.4.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/443), regs. 1, 4(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(1)(c) inserted (6.4.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions for Failure to Attend) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/509), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(1)(b)(c) substituted (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Reg. 25(1A) inserted (6.4.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions for Failure to Attend) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/509), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(1A) inserted (12.2.2013 at 6.45pm) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/276), regs. 1, 14(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(1A) inserted (temp. until 24.11.2016) (25.11.2014) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (18-21 Work Skills Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3117), regs. 1(1), 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(1A) inserted (temp. until 30.4.2015) (18.7.2014) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Supervised Jobsearch Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1913), regs. 1(1), 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(1A) inserted (20.5.2011) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/917), regs. 1, 16(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(1A) inserted (25.4.2011) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Mandatory Work Activity Scheme) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/688), regs. 1, 16(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 25(1A) modified (22.11.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work for Your Benefit Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1222), regs. 1(2), 18(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:28.715055+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."
}