Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations

4.  In regulation 19 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) (time for claiming benefit)—

(a) in paragraph (2) for “paragraph (4)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (4) and (4A)”;

(b) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(4A) For the purpose only of determining the date from which benefit is to be payable, the prescribed time for claiming reduced earnings allowance shall not be extended so as to give entitlement to benefit for any period earlier than 12 months before the date on which the claim was made.”.

(1)

S.R. 1987 No. 465; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1988 No. 141