The Social Security (Medical Evidence, Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1989

Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Claims and Payments Regulations

8.—(1) Schedule 7 to the Claims and Payments Regulations (manner and time of payment, effective date of change of circumstances and commencement of entitlement in income support cases) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) For paragraph 3 there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

“3.— (1) Subject to any direction given by the Secretary of State in accordance with sub-paragraph (2), income support in respect of any benefit week shall, if the beneficiary is entitled to a relevant social security benefit or would be so entitled but for failure to satisfy the contribution conditions or had not exhausted his entitlement, be paid on the day and at the intervals appropriate to payment of that benefit.

(2) The Secretary of State may direct that income support in respect of any benefit week shall be paid at such intervals and on such days as he may in any particular case or class of case determine.”.

(3) After paragraph 3 shall be added the following paragraph–

“3A.— (1) Income support for any part-week shall be paid in accordance with an award on such day as the Secretary of State may in any particular case direct.

(2) In this paragraph, “part-week” has the same meaning as it has in Part VII of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987.”.