The Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 (“the Claims and Payments Regulations”), the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975 (“the Persons Abroad Regulations”), the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 1975 (“the Hospital In-Patients Regulations”), the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations 1986 (“the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations”) and the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982 (“the Statutory Sick Pay Regulations”).

Regulation 3 amends regulation 19 of the Claims and Payments Regulations by extending the ability to claim benefit out of time if there is good cause for delay to disability working allowance.

Regulation 4 amends regulation 32 of the Claims and Payments Regulations by enabling the Secretary of State to determine, in any particular case, that notice of a change of circumstances may be given otherwise than in writing.

Regulation 5 amends regulation 34 of the Claims and Payments Regulations so that the Secretary of State may only direct that payment of benefit be made to a natural person on the beneficiary’s behalf.

Regulation 6 revokes regulation 49 of the Claims and Payments Regulations which contains savings relating to family income supplement and supplementary benefit.

Regulation 7 amends Schedule 1 to the Claims and Payments Regulations by deleting the words “supplementary benefit” so that a claim for income support can no longer be treated as a claim for supplementary benefit.

Regulation 8 makes various amendments to the provisions in Schedule 9 to the Claims and Payments Regulations in respect of deductions from benefit and direct payment to third parties in respect of housing costs, hostel payments, service charges for fuel and rent, fuel costs and water charges.

Regulations 9 and 10 amend the Persons Abroad Regulations so that a person shall not be disqualified for receiving retirement allowance when he is absent from Great Britain.

Regulation 11 amends the Hospital In-Patients Regulations in order to reflect the ways in which treatment can now be provided under the National Health Service.

Regulations 12 and 13 amend the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations and regulations 14 and 15 amend the Statutory Sick Pay Regulations to provide that the expression “earnings” has the same meaning as it does in the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/591).