Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations
5. In regulation 7(1) of the principal Regulations (entitlement to payments for funeral expenses)—
(a)for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(a)the claimant or the claimant’s partner has, in respect of the date of the claim for a funeral payment, been awarded either income support, family credit or housing benefit; and”
(b)in sub-paragraph (d) for the words from “in regulation 7” to the end of that sub-paragraph there shall be substituted “in regulation 19 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987.”