The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987

Date of entitlement under an award for the purpose of payability of benefit and effective date of change of rate

16.—(1) For the purpose only of determining the day from which benefit is to become payable, where a benefit other than one of those specified in paragraph (4) is awarded for a period of a week, or weeks, and the earliest date on which entitlement would otherwise commence is not the first day of a benefit week, entitlement shall begin on the first day of the benefit week next following.

(2) Where there is a change in the rate of any benefit to which paragraph (1) applies the change, if it would otherwise take effect on a day which is not the appropriate pay day for that benefit, shall take effect from the appropriate pay day next following.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation the first day of the benefit week in the case of child benefit is Monday and in any other case except family credit is the day of the week on which the benefit is payable in accordance with regulation 22 (long term benefits).

(4) The benefits specified for exclusion from the scope of paragraph (1) are unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, invalidity benefit, maternity allowance, attendance allowance, severe disablement allowance, income support and family credit and any increase of those benefits.