Interest on late payment of benefitsE+W+S
112.—(1) This regulation applies to a benefit except—
(a)a phased retirement pension or a phased retirement lump sum, or
(b)a total incapacity pension payable between the date on which the person to whom it is paid first engages in any other form of paid or unpaid work as mentioned in paragraph (3)(c)(i) of regulation 67 (cessation of total incapacity pension) and the date on which the Secretary of State determines as mentioned in paragraph (3)(c)(ii) of that regulation.
(2) Except as provided in paragraphs (9) and (10), where a benefit to which this regulation applies is not paid within 1 month of the due date, the Secretary of State must pay interest on the amount unpaid at the Bank of England base rate compounded with three-monthly rests from the due date to the date of payment.
(3) Where the benefit is a death grant, the due date is the day after the date on which the Secretary of State became satisfied that payment may be made.
(4) Where the benefit is a lump sum or a grant other than a death grant, the due date is the day on which the benefit is payable.
(5) Where the benefit is a pension or annuity, the due date is—
(a)in the case of a payment under regulation 109(2) or 110(2), the initial payment date (as defined in those regulations);
(b)in the case of a payment under regulation 109(5) or 110(5), the cessation date (as defined in those regulations);
(c)in any other case, the date on which payment is to be made under regulation 109(4) or 110(4).
(6) In determining the due date in accordance with paragraphs (4) and (5), no account is to be taken of the requirement to make an application for the benefit under regulation 107 (except the requirement contained in regulation 60(3)(c) or in paragraph 10(1)(e) of Schedule 7).
(7) In this regulation “Bank of England base rate” means—
(a)the rate announced from time to time by the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England as the official dealing rate, being the rate at which the Bank is willing to enter into transactions for providing short-term liquidity in the money markets, or
(b)where an order under section 19 of the Bank of England Act 1998 M1 is in force, any equivalent rate determined by the Treasury under that section.
(8) Where a payment to the Secretary of State is received after the benefit to which it relates becomes payable, the Secretary of State may determine that this regulation does not apply to the benefit until the payment is received.
(9) Where a benefit is payable between the date specified under regulation 115(1) (evidence of continuing entitlement etc. to benefit) and the date on which the evidence referred to in that regulation is received by the Secretary of State in circumstances where—
(a)the Secretary of State required evidence to be provided under that regulation,
(b)the necessary evidence was not provided by the date specified but that evidence was provided later, and
(c)it does not appear to the Secretary of State that the delay in the provision of the evidence was due to circumstances outside the control of the person to whom the benefit is payable
this regulation does not apply unless the Secretary of State determines in a particular case, either in respect of the whole period or any part of the period.