PART IIPAYMENTS FOR MATERNITY EXPENSES [F1IN ENGLAND AND WALES]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in Pt. II heading inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Best Start Grants) (Consequential Modifications and Saving) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1138), art. 3(3) (with reg. 4)

Entitlement

[F25.—(1) Subject to [F3regulations 5A and 6], a payment of £500 to meet maternity expenses (referred to in these Regulations as a “Sure Start Maternity Grant”) shall be made in respect of a child or still-born child where the following conditions are satisfied.

(2) The first condition is that the claimant or the claimant’s partner has, in respect of the date of the claim for a Sure Start Maternity Grant, been awarded—

(a)income support;

(b)state pension credit;

(c)an income-based jobseeker’s allowance;

(d)working tax credit where the disability element or the severe disability element of working tax credit as specified in regulation 20(1)(b) and (f) of the Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) Regulations 2002 is included in the award;

(e) child tax credit [F4which includes an individual element or a disability element referred to in section 9(3) of the Tax Credits Act 2002]; F5 ...

(f)an income-related employment and support allowance; F6[F7...

(g)universal credit][F8; or

(h)owner-occupier loan payments and is treated as entitled to a benefit specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) and (f).]

(3) The second condition is that—

(a)the claimant or, if the claimant is a member of a family, one of the family is pregnant or has given birth to a child or a still-born child;

[F9(b)the child’s parents are not partners at the date of the claim and the claimant—

(i)is the parent (but not the mother) of the child (who must not exceed the age of twelve months at the date of the claim), or is responsible for that parent, and

(ii)is responsible for the child;]

(c)the claimant or the claimant’s partner—

(i)has been granted a qualifying order in respect of a child who does not exceed the age of twelve months at the date of the claim, and

(ii)is responsible for the child;

(d)the claimant or the claimant’s partner—

(i)has been appointed the guardian of a child who does not exceed the age of twelve months at the date of the claim, and

(ii)is responsible for the child;

(e)a child who does not exceed the age of twelve months at the date of the claim has been placed for adoption with the claimant or the claimant’s partner by an adoption agency and the claimant or the claimant’s partner is responsible for the child; or

(f)the claimant or the claimant’s partner has adopted a child who does not exceed the age of twelve months at the date of the claim and that adoption falls within section 66(1)(c) to (e) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (meaning of adoption).

F10(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5) The [F11third] condition is that the claim is made within the prescribed time for claiming a Sure Start Maternity Grant.]

[F12(6) The [F13fourth] condition is that the claimant lives in England or Wales.]

Textual Amendments

F4Words in reg. 5(2)(e) substituted (6.4.2017) by The Social Fund (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/271), regs. 1(2), 3(3)

F6Word in reg. 5(2) omitted by S.I. 2017/725, Sch. 5 para. 9(3)(a) (as inserted) (6.4.2018) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/307), regs. 1(2), 2(18)(e)

F8Reg. 5(2)(h) inserted by S.I. 2017/725, Sch. 5 para. 9(3)(b) (as inserted) (6.4.2018) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/307), regs. 1(2), 2(18)(e)