Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 19879

In regulation 35(2)11 (deductions which may be made from benefit and paid to third parties) for “instrument of payment may be, and in the case of funeral expenses shall be, made payable to that person and it may, in any case, be delivered or sent to that person as a direct payment” there shall be substituted “payment may be, and in the case of funeral expenses shall be, made to that person and where an instrument of payment is made payable to that person it may be sent to the beneficiary”.