The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020

Amendment of regulation 10 (failure to receive benefit)

14.—(1) In the heading to regulation 10(1), omit “represented by the voucher”.

(2) In regulation 10(1), after “voucher” insert “or credit”.

(3) For regulation 10(2) substitute—

“(2) If a beneficiary who is entitled to benefit under regulations 3 and 4 receives a voucher or a credit to a voucher, and—

(a) the voucher is lost or stolen or accidentally destroyed; or

(b) it is not possible to use the voucher to purchase Healthy Start food within a reasonable distance of the beneficiary’s home; or

(c) the beneficiary is a child under the age of one year and it is not possible to use the voucher to purchase Healthy Start food consisting of infant formula as described in Schedule 3 within a reasonable distance of the child’s home,

the beneficiary may, in accordance with paragraph (3), so notify in writing the Secretary of State for the purposes of this regulation.”.

(4) In regulation 10(3)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a)—

(i) for “submitted” substitute “made”;

(ii) for “within four weeks of the date of expiry of her last voucher” substitute “within eight weeks of the date the voucher or credit was due to be received”;

(b) for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b) (i) in paragraph (2)(a), must do so within 16 weeks beginning with the date on which the voucher or credit was received;

(ii) in paragraph (2)(b) and (c), must do so within 8 weeks beginning with the date on which the voucher or credit was received.”.

(5) In regulation 10(4)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), after “voucher” insert “or credit”;

(b) for sub-paragraph (c) substitute —

“(c) on a notification pursuant to paragraph (2)(b) or (c), that it is not possible to use the voucher to purchase Healthy Start food, or Healthy Start food consisting of infant formula as described in Schedule 3, within a reasonable distance of the beneficiary’s home,”;

(c) in the full out words—

(i) after “shall” insert “, subject to paragraph (5),”;

(ii) after the first reference to “voucher” insert “or credit” and after the second reference insert “or, as the case may be, credit”.

(6) After regulation 10(4) insert—

“(5) Where a voucher is issued or a payment made in a case falling within paragraph (4)(b) or (c), the amount of any credit spent prior to the notification being made may be deducted from the value represented by the voucher or payment.”.

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Regulation 10 was revoked in relation to Scotland by S.S.I. 2019/193.