The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 1997

Amendment of regulation 63 of the Adjudication Regulations

13.—(1) Regulation 63 of the Adjudication Regulations (review in income support cases) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a) after the words “regulation 58 applies,” there shall be inserted the words “and subject to paragraph (1A),”; and

(b) for the words “12 months” in each place where they occur there shall be substituted the words “one month”.

(3) After paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(1A) A determination on a claim or question relating to income support may be revised on a review so as to make income support payable, or to increase the claimant’s applicable amount under Part IV of the Income Support Regulations, or to increase the amount of income support payable, in respect of a period which falls more than one month before the date the review was requested, or, where no request is made, the date of the review, (“the one-month period”) where—

(a) the reason for the revised determination is that the claimant has become entitled to another benefit; and

(b) arrears of that other benefit are payable in respect of a period before the one-month period.”.