275.This section provides for regulations to be made which would require people who are not required to meet the jobseeking conditions, and who are not a member of a joint-claim couple, to undertake work-focused interviews. The purpose of the interview is to consider a person’s existing and future employment and training prospects or needs. Subsection (3) provides that a lone parent with a child aged under one will not be required to undertake work-focused interviews.
Schedule 1: Amendments connected to section 4 11A Persons not required to meet the jobseeking conditions