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The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002

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36.—(1) This regulation applies in the case of any person (referred to as “the transferee”) who—

(a)immediately before the appointed day, is entitled to income support; and

(b)attains or has attained the qualifying age on or before the appointed day.

(2) The transferee shall be treated as having made a claim for state pension credit in the period of 6 months immediately preceding the appointed day.

(3) The Secretary of State shall, so far as practicable, decide before the appointed day a claim for state pension credit treated as made under paragraph (2).

(4) A decision of the Secretary of State made in accordance with paragraph (3) may be revised by the Secretary of State at any time within the period of 13 months commencing on the date of notification of the decision if an application is made by the claimant to the Secretary of State or a person acting on his behalf for the decision to be revised.

(5) For the purposes of section 9 (duration of assessed income period), the decision of the Secretary of State takes effect on the appointed day.

(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of regulation 26B(4) of the Claims and Payments Regulations M1, state pension credit may in the case of a transferee be payable in arrears if the income support to which he was entitled before the appointed day was paid in arrears.

(7) [F1Notwithstanding the provisions of Schedule 3B of the Decisions and Appeals Regulations,] in the case of a transferee to whom paragraph (6) applies, any decision under section 10 of the 1998 Act which—

(a)supersedes a decision awarding state pension credit to a transferee; and

(b)is made on the ground that there has been a relevant change of circumstances since the decision was made or that it is anticipated that a relevant change of circumstances will occur,

shall take effect from the first day of the benefit week in which the change occurs or is expected to occur.

[F2(7A) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (7), where the relevant change of circumstances is that the transferee becomes a patient M2 again within the same benefit week in which he ceased to be a patient, the superseding decision in respect of becoming a patient again shall take effect from the first day of the benefit week following the benefit week in which the change occurs.]

(8) For the purpose of paragraph (7), “benefit week” means the period of 7 days ending on the day on which, in the claimant’s case, state pension credit is payable.

(9) Any payment made to a transferee to whom paragraph (10) applies—

(a)in respect of a period falling on or after the appointed day;

(b)which would have been payable under an award of income support but for the coming into force of the Act,

shall be offset against any state pension credit payable under an award on or after 6th October 2003 on a claim treated as made under paragraph (2).

(10) This paragraph applies to a transferee in respect of whom no decision has been made on his claim for state pension credit which is treated as having been made in accordance with paragraph (2).

(11) If the Secretary of State determines that no state pension credit is payable, or that the amount payable is less than the payments referred to in paragraph (9), he shall determine the amount of the overpayment.

(12) The amount of any overpayment determined in accordance with paragraph (11) shall be recoverable by the Secretary of State by the same procedures and subject to the same conditions as if it were recoverable under section 71 (1) of the Administration Act.

(13) Where the transferee—

(a)has, immediately before the appointed day, an award of income support payable by direct credit transfer in accordance with regulation 21 of the Claims and Payments Regulations; and

(b)state pension credit is payable or treated as payable to him as from the appointed day,

the state pension credit shall be paid by direct credit transfer into the same bank or other account as the payment of income support; and for this purpose, any application made or treated as made and any consent given or treated as given in relation to the payment of income support shall be treated as made or given in relation to the payment of state pension credit.

(14) Where—

(a)the transferee had immediately before the appointed day an award of income support from which deductions were made or where part of the benefit was paid to a third party in accordance with—

(i)regulation 34A of, and Schedule 9A to, the Claims and Payments Regulations (mortgage interest payments); or

(ii)regulation 35 of, and Schedule 9B to, those Regulations (deductions which may be made and payments to third parties); and

(b)state pension credit is payable or treated as payable to the transferee as from the appointed day,

then as from the appointed day, those deductions shall be made from the transferee’s state pension credit and those payments of part of the benefit shall continue to be made to the third party in accordance with those provisions.

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