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The Social Security (Claims and Payments and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002

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Amendment of regulation 19 of the Claims and Payments Regulations

3.—(1) Regulation 19 of the Claims and Payments Regulations(1) (time for claiming benefit) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In paragraph (4)(a) after the word “any” there shall be inserted the words “one or more”.

(3) In paragraph (6) for the words from “where-” to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted the words—

  • where the claim is not made within the time specified for that benefit in Schedule 4, the prescribed time for claiming the benefit shall be extended, subject to a maximum extension of one month, to the date on which the claim is made, where—

    (a)

    any one or more of the circumstances specified in paragraph (7) applies or has applied to the claimant; and

    (b)

    as a result of that circumstance or those circumstances the claimant could not reasonably have been expected to make the claim earlier..

(4) In paragraph (7)(d)—

(a)after the words “the claimant” in the first place where they occur, there shall be inserted the words “or, in the case of income support or jobseeker’s allowance, the claimant or his partner”; and

(b)after the words “the claimant” in the second place where they occur, there shall be inserted the words “or his partner, as the case may be,”.

(1)

Regulation 19 was substituted by S.I. 1997/793 and amended by S.I. 1997/2290, 1999/2572 and 2000/1982.

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