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14.—(1) Regulation 19 of the Claims and Payments Regulations (time for claiming benefit) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) After paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(2A) In the case of a claim for income support or family credit, where the claimant does not prove that there was good cause for the failure to claim throughout the period specified in paragraph (2) but does prove that there was good cause throughout the period from a date subsequent to the expiry of the prescribed time to the date on which the claim was made, the claim shall be treated as made on—
(a)that subsequent date if it is not more than 12 months before the date on which the claim was made; or
(b)in any other case the date 12 months before the date on which the claim was made.”.
(3) In paragraph (6)(a) after the words “child benefit and” there shall be inserted the words “except in a case to which section 165C(3) of the Social Security Act 1975(1) (late claims for widowhood benefits where death is difficult to establish) applies”.
Section 165C was inserted into the Social Security Act 1975 (c. 14) by section 6 of the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27).
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