The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1999

Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987

7.  At the end of regulation 3 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 M1 (claims not required for entitlement to benefit in certain cases) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(h) in the case of income support where the beneficiary—

(i) is a person to whom regulation 6(2) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies;

(ii) was in receipt of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance on the day before the day on which he was first engaged in the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph; and

(iii) would satisfy the conditions of entitlement to income support (apart from the condition of making a claim which would apply in the absence of this paragraph) only by virtue of regulation 6(3) of those Regulations.”.

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1987/1968; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1989/136, 1994/2943 and 1996/1460.