# The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2017, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013 (“the 2013 Regulations”) so as to prescribe the Work and Health Programme for the purposes of section 17A of the Jobseekers Act 1995 in addition to the schemes already prescribed.
This means that persons claiming a jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) who are selected under regulation 4 of the 2013 Regulations are required to participate in the Work and Health Programme. 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.
These Regulations also remove three schemes from the 2013 Regulations – Day One Support for Young People, the Derbyshire Mandatory Youth Activity Programme and Community Work Placements – as these schemes are no longer in use, and remove definitions that are no longer necessary.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1020/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-schemes-for-assisting-persons-to-obtain-employment-amendment-regulations-2017/note
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