{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2000/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2000/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1926",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Reduction of income support",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), any payment of income support which falls to be made to a person after the date on which an officer decided under these Regulations that that person had not—\n(a) taken part; and\n(b) shown good cause for not taking part,\nin an interview shall be reduced as from the first day of the next benefit week following the date the decision was made, by a sum equal to 20 per cent of the amount applicable (specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 ) ... in respect of a single claimant for income support aged not less than 25.\n(2) Payment shall not be reduced under paragraph (1) below 10 pence per week.\n(3) A reduction under this regulation shall cease to have effect as regards a person from whichever is the earlier of—\n(a) the date on which that person attains pensionable age;\n(b) the date on which that person ceased to be a lone parent; ...\n(c) the first day of the benefit week in which that person satisfies a compliance condition, and;\n(d) the first day of the benefit week in which regulation 4(1A) first applies to that person.\n(4) In paragraph (3)(c), “compliance condition” means a requirement to—\n(a) take part in an interview; or\n(b) undertake work-related activity.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) omitted (31.10.2011) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2425), regs. 1(2), 13(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(3)(a) substituted (6.4.2010) by Social Security (Work-focused Interviews etc.) (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/563), regs. 1, 4(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(3)(b) omitted (31.10.2011) by virtue of The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2428), regs. 1, 2(9)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(3)(c) substituted (28.4.2014) by The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1097), regs. 1(1), 13(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 8(3)(d) and word inserted (31.10.2011) by The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2428), regs. 1, 2(9)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 8(4) inserted (28.4.2014) by The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1097), regs. 1(1), 13(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 8(4) omitted (31.10.2011) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2425), regs. 1(2), 13(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1967; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2000/440."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1926/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:44.764723+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."
}