Regulation 2 Interpretation and application

“the 1998 Act” means the Social Security Act 1998 M1;

“benefit week” means any period of seven days corresponding to the week in respect of which the relevant specified benefit is due to be paid;

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“interview” means a work-focused interview with a person who has claimed a specified benefit and which is conducted for any or all of the following purposes—

1. (a)

   assessing that person’s prospects for existing or future employment (whether paid or voluntary);

2. (b)

   assisting or encouraging that person to enhance his prospects of such employment;

3. (c)

   identifying activities which that person may undertake to strengthen his existing or future prospects of employment;

4. (d)

   identifying current or future employment or training opportunities suitable to that person’s needs; and

5. (e)

   identifying educational opportunities connected with the existing or future employment prospects or needs of that person;

F3“lone parent” has the meaning it bears in regulation 2(1) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987;

“officer” means a person who is an officer of, or who is providing services to or exercising functions of, the Secretary of State;

F4“pensionable age”, in the case of a man born before 6th April 1955, means the age when a woman born on the same day as the man would attain pensionable age;

F5“relevant benefit” means income support other than income support where one of the following paragraphs of Schedule 1B to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 applies—

1. (a)

   paragraph 7 (F6persons treated as capable of work and persons entitled to statutory sick pay), or

2. (b)

   paragraph 24 or 25 (persons appealing against a decision which embodies a determination that they are not incapable of work);

F7“relevant interview” means an interview under these Regulations in relation to the claimant’s current award of a specified benefit;

F8“specified benefit” means income support, incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance;

F9“specified person” means—

1. (a)

   a lone parent, or

2. (b)

   a person who claims—

   1. (i)

      incapacity benefit,

   2. (ii)

      income support where paragraph 7 (persons treated as capable of work and persons entitled to statutory sick pay) of Schedule 1B to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 applies,

   3. (iii)

      income support where paragraph 24 or 25 (persons appealing against a decision which embodies a determination that they are not incapable of work) of Schedule 1B to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 applies, or

   4. (iv)

      severe disablement allowance.