[2AA Full entitlement to certain benefits conditional on work-focused interview for partner]
Social Security Administration Act 1992 (1992 c 5) | Legislation

[2AA  Full entitlement to certain benefits conditional on work-focused interview for partner]

[(1) Regulations may make provision for or in connection with imposing, at a time when—

(a) a person (“the claimant”) who—

[(i) has not attained pensionable age (but see subsection (1A)), and

(ii) has a partner who has also not attained pensionable age,]

is entitled to a benefit to which this section applies at a higher rate referable to his partner, and

(b) prescribed circumstances exist,

a requirement for the partner to take part in [one or more work-focused interviews] as a condition of the benefit continuing to be payable to the claimant at that rate.

[(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1) a man born before [6 December 1953] is treated as attaining pensionable age when a woman born on the same day as the man would attain pensionable age.]

(2) The benefits to which this section applies are—

(a) income support;

(b) an income-based jobseeker's allowance other than a joint-claim jobseeker's allowance;

(c) incapacity benefit;

(d) severe disablement

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