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Amendment of the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013
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6.—(1) The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013() are amended as follows.
(2) For regulation 7 (claims not required for entitlement to an employment and support allowance in certain cases) substitute—
“7.—(1) It is not to be a condition of entitlement to an employment and support allowance that a claim be made for it where—
(a)the claimant has made and is pursuing an appeal against a relevant decision of the Secretary of State, and
(b)the appeal relates to a decision to terminate or not to award an employment and support allowance for which a claim was made.
(2) In this regulation—
“appellate authority” means the First-tier Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal, the Court of Appeal, the Court of Session, or the Supreme Court; and
“relevant decision” means—
(a)
a decision that embodies the first determination by the Secretary of State that the claimant does not have limited capability for work; or
(b)
a decision that embodies the first determination by the Secretary of State that the claimant does not have limited capability for work since a previous determination by the Secretary of State or appellate authority that the claimant does have limited capability for work.”.
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