The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987

Income support

26.—(1) Schedule 7 shall have effect for determining the manner in and time at which income support is to be paid, the day when any change of circumstances affecting entitlement is to have effect and the day when entitlement to income support is to begin.

(2) Where income support paid by means of a book of serial orders is increased on review by an amount which, with any previous such increase, is less than 50 pence per week, the Secretary of State may defer payment of that increase until not later than either–

(a) the termination of entitlement; or

(b) the expiration of the period of one week from the date specified for payment in the last order in that book of serial orders,

whichever is the earlier.

(3) Where income support paid by means of a book of serial orders is reduced on review by less than 50 pence per week, the reduction shall be disregarded for the period to which that book relates.

(4) Where the entitlement to income support is less than 10 pence or, in the case of a beneficiary to whom section 23(8) of the Social Security Act 1986 applies, £5, that amount shall not be payable unless the claimant is also entitled to payment of any other benefit with which income support is paid under arrangements made by the Secretary of State.