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Explanatory note

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These Regulations amend the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013 so as to prescribe two further schemes to the ones already prescribed for the purposes of section 17A of the Jobseekers Act 1995, namely Community Work Placements and Traineeships.

These Regulations impose on persons claiming a jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) a requirement to participate in “a prescribed scheme”. A claimant who fails without good reason to comply with such a requirement is liable to a benefit sanction, i.e. the reduction or loss of JSA for a period of several weeks.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations.