The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1991

Amendment of regulation 16

9.  In regulation 16(1) (date of entitlement for payability of benefit rate)–

(a) in paragraph (1A)–

(i) after the reference to “paragraph 7(a)” there shall be inserted a reference to “or (aa)”; and

(ii) after the words “family credit” in the second place where they occur there shall be inserted the words “or disability working allowance,”;

(b) in paragraph (1B) after the words “family credit” there shall be inserted the words “or disability working allowance,”;

(c) after paragraph (1B) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

“(1C) Where a claim for disability working allowance is made in accordance with paragraph 11(a) or (b) of Schedule 4 for a period following the expiration of an existing award of disability working allowance or family credit, entitlement shall begin on the day after the expiration of that award.”; and

(d) in paragraph (3)(b) after the words “family credit” there shall be inserted the words “or disability working allowance”.

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Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1988/522.