The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1993

Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (entitlement to funeral payment)—

(a) for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following subparagraph—

“(a) the claimant or the claimant’s partner in respect of the date of the claim for a funeral payment—

(i) has been awarded income support, family credit, disability working allowance, housing benefit or council tax benefit where, in the case of council tax benefit, that benefit is awarded by virtue only of the claimant or his partner having fulfilled the conditions of entitlement specified in section 131(3) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (entitlement to the appropriate maximum council tax benefit)((1)); or

(ii) is a person to whom, by virtue of sub-section (7) of section 131 of that Act, sub-section (6) of that section applies where, on a claim for council tax benefit, the conditions of entitlement specified in section 131(3) and (6) for an award of the alternative maximum council tax benefit are fulfilled; and”;

(b) in paragraph (2)(b) at the end there shall be added the words “and, in the case of cremation, the cost of an ordinary urn”.

(1)

“Council tax benefit” was added to the income-related benefits in Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 by Schedule 9 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) and paragraph 4 of that Schedule substituted a new section 131 with respect to council tax benefit in the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992.