{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-partners-amendment-regulations-2011/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2428",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-partners-amendment-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2008",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2008 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), after the definition of “benefit week”, insert—\n““lone parent” has the meaning it bears in section 24(3A) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007;”; and\n(b) after paragraph (2), insert—\n“(3) For the purposes of section 2A(2A) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, and regulation 3(6), a lone parent is to be treated as responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child under the age of one only where the lone parent would be treated as responsible for and a member of the same household as such a child under regulations 15 and 16 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 if references in those regulations to income support were to a specified benefit.”.\n(3) In regulation 3 (relevant claimant), after paragraph (5) insert—\n“(6) The fifth condition is that the person is not a lone parent who is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child under the age of one.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/2928."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 2 has been amended but not in a way which is material to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1967."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Regulation 3 was amended by S.I. 2009/1541, regulation 1(1) and S.I. 2010/563, regulation 8(1) and (3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2428/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:53:45.951834+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."
}