The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment Regulations 1987

Amendment of regulation 11 of the principal regulations

4.  Regulation 11 (contribution to maintenance of adult dependant) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph (2) the words “or section 66(1)(a)” and “or section 66(1)(d)” shall be omitted;

(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“2A.   Where, within one month of having been entitled to an increase of unemployment benefit or sickness benefit under section 44(3)(a) by virtue of contributing to the maintenance of her husband at a weekly rate not less than the standard rate of the increase, a woman becomes entitled to a benefit which attracts a standard rate of increase higher than that of the benefit to which she had been entitled, she shall be deemed to satisfy the condition in paragraph (1)(a) if she satisfies it in relation to the benefit to which she had been entitled, and in this paragraph “entitled” includes deemed to have been entitled.”; and

(c) in paragraph (3) for “paragraph (2)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (2) and (2A)” and at the end there shall be added “or the condition of section 44(3)(a) that her husband is not engaged in any one or more employments from which his weekly earnings exceed the standard rate of increase.”.