{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-quarterly-work-focused-interviews-for-certain-lone-parents-regulations-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2244",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Quarterly Work-focused Interviews for Certain Lone Parents) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-quarterly-work-focused-interviews-for-certain-lone-parents-regulations-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide that a lone parent who has been entitled to income support (other than income support on the grounds of incapacity or income support awarded whilst he is appealing against a decision which embodies a determination that he is not incapable of work) for at least 12 months prior to the date these Regulations come into force, who satisfies certain conditions as to age, whose youngest child is at least 12 years old, and who resides in one of certain areas which are identified in the Schedule shall be required to take part in work-focused interviews at quarterly intervals (regulations 1 and 2).\nRegulation 3 provides that the requirement to take part in a work-focused interview may be waived where an interview would not be of assistance to the person or it would not be appropriate in the circumstances of the case.\nRegulation 4 provides that the requirement to take part in a work-focused interview may be deferred.\nRegulation 5 provides for the person to be advised of the date, time and place of the work-focused interview, that such an interview can take place in the person’s home and that an officer shall conduct the interview.\nRegulation 6 prescribes the circumstances where a person shall be regarded as having taken part in a work-focused interview.\nRegulation 7 sets out the consequences of a failure to take part in a work-focused interview, including how benefit shall be reduced for every failure to take part in such an interview and it specifies the circumstances where those consequences do not apply.\nRegulation 8 specifies examples of matters to be taken into account in determining whether a person had good cause for his failure to take part in a work-focused interview.\nRegulation 9 provides that a decision that a person has failed to take part in a work-focused interview without good cause can be appealed to an appeal tribunal under section 12 of the Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14).\nRegulation 10 amends the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1926) to provide that those Regulations shall not apply to a person to whom these Regulations apply.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2244/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:19:26.235391+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."
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