Chapter 48: Claimant responsibilities: other benefits
This chapter covers:
1. The jobseeking conditions for jobseeker’s allowance outside the universal credit system (
here)
2. Work-focused interviews for other benefits (
here)
3. Work-related activity for income support and employment and support allowance (
here)
This chapter covers the work-related responsibilities you, and in some cases your partner, may have in order to get income support (IS), jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) and employment and support allowance (ESA). If you come under the universal credit (UC) system (see
here), including if you are claiming contribution-based JSA or contributory ESA under the UC system, the rules in this chapter do not apply to you. See Chapter
46 instead. For your responsibilities for incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance, or if you are still claiming IS on the basis of incapacity for work, see Chapter 46 in the 2017/18 edition of this
Handbook.