The Social Security (Payments on Account of Benefit) Regulations 2013

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 General

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. PART 2 Payments on account of benefit

   1. 3. Definition of “benefit”

   2. 4. Payments on account of benefit

   3. 5. Payment on account of benefit where there is no award of benefit

   4. 6. Payment on account of benefit where there is an award of benefit

   5. 7. Definition of financial need

   6. 8. Requirement for notice

   7. 9. Payment by direct credit transfer

   8. 10. Bringing payments on account of benefit into account

4. PART 3 Budgeting advances

   1. 11. Payment of budgeting advances

   2. 12. Conditions for payment of budgeting advances

   3. 13. Earnings condition

   4. 14. Recovery condition

   5. 15. Minimum and maximum amounts payable by way of budgeting advance

   6. 16. Treatment of capital

   7. 17. Requirement for notice

   8. 18. Payment by direct credit transfer

5. PART 4 Consequential amendments, revocations and savings

   1. 19. Consequential revocation to the 1988 Regulations and savings

   2. 20. Amendments to the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 and saving

6. Signature

7. Explanatory Note