Who is exempt from work focused interviews

Your work coach should adjust your work-related activity if your child has extra care needs - for example if they have a mental health condition. They should do this even if your child is over Usually the 12 months starts when when the child is placed with you. You can start your 12 months up to 14 days before then if you tell the Jobcentre you need time to prepare for the adoption.

You might need to show some evidence of the risk - for example a letter from your doctor. Find out more about having limited capability for work. Check how the minimum income floor works.

For your earnings threshold, your weekly hours depend on what work-related activity group you would be in if you weren't working:. If your combined earnings are less than your joint threshold, one or both of you will need to look for more work.

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Top links Making a will Complaining about social care services What does it mean to have power of attorney? If you are put into the work-related activity group then you will have to comply with strict work-related conditions in order to continue receiving your full benefit.

One of these conditions is to attend and take part in another five work-focused interviews at intervals of about once a month. Your personal adviser will discuss what activities you could be doing to help you get in to work and will also draw up an action plan. It is important to make sure that this action plan takes into account the limitations your health condition put upon you.

Failure to attend or take part in this interview without good cause — for example, being ill or having a hospital appointment that it would be unreasonable to rearranged - will result in your ESA being reduced.

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Work-related activity is action that makes it more likely that you will get a job or remain in work. The required activity is at the discretion of your work coach. If you are subject to all work-related requirements you must be available for work and you cannot unreasonably refuse any offers of work. In general, you are required to take all reasonable action to obtain paid work, more paid work or better paid work.

This means that you will be required to spend a certain number of hours each week searching for and applying for jobs. You may also be required to undertake work preparation activities such as attending a skills assessment, improving personal presentation, participating in training and undertaking work experience.

If you are the responsible carer for a child under 13 you can ask your personal adviser for adjustments to your expected hours of work in order to meet your childcare responsibilities.

This means that your Income Support or Universal Credit will stop or be paid at a reduced rate for a certain number of days. The DWP will allow five working days for you to provide an explanation before applying a sanction. If you are sanctioned you have a time limit of one month to challenge this decision. There are further rules that might mean you are exempt from some or all of the work related requirements, these can apply if:.

A sanction takes away the part of the benefit which is for you, called the standard allowance or half of it if you are claiming Universal Credit as a couple. You still get any housing element, child element and other Universal Credit elements you are entitled to in your calculation.

In some circumstances, leaving your job could result in a sanction, where you would not receive any additional benefit entitlement for 3 months or longer.