The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1997

Amendment of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1995

4.  The Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1995(1) shall be amended in the following manner—

(a) in regulation 63(7) (review in income support cases) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to regulation 63B (further provision on reviews of income support cases and jobseeker’s allowance cases),”;

(b) in regulation 63A(9)(2) (review in jobseeker’s allowance cases) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to regulation 63B (further provision on reviews of income support cases and jobseeker’s allowance cases) and,”;

(c) after regulation 63A the following regulation shall be inserted—

“Further provision on reviews in income support cases and jobseeker’s allowance cases—

63B.   Where, in any case to which regulation 63(7) or 63A(9) applies (reviews of housing costs on the anniversaries of the date on which a claimant’s mortgage interest costs are first met for income support or jobseeker’s allowance), a claimant has been continuously in receipt of or treated as having been continuously in receipt of income support or jobseeker’s allowance, or one of those benefits followed by the other, and he or his partner continues to receive either benefit, the anniversary to which those paragraphs refer shall be the anniversary of the earliest date on which benefit (whether income support or jobseeker’s allowance) in respect of those mortgage interest costs became payable.”.

(1)

S.I. 1995/1801; relevant amending instruments S.I. 1996/1518, 2306 and 2659.

(2)

Regulation 63A was inserted by S.I. 1996/1518; relevant amending instruments S.I. 1996/2306 and 2659.