The Social Security (Claims and Payments and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 No. 2441

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

13.  In Schedule 9A(1) (deductions of mortgage interest from benefit and payment to qualifying lenders), in paragraph 1 (interpretation), in the definition of “relevant benefits”(2)—

(a) for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted—

“(a) income support, which is either paid alone or paid together with any incapacity benefit, retirement pension or severe disablement allowance in a combined payment in respect of any period; and”; and

(b) paragraph (b) shall be omitted.

(1)

Schedule 9A was inserted by S.I. 1992/1026.

(2)

The definition of “relevant benefits” was substituted by S.I. 1996/672 and was amended by S.I. 1996/1460 and 3195 and 1997/454.