PART 8Payment of benefits

CHAPTER 4Continuing entitlement to benefit

Evidence of continuing entitlement to benefit175

1

Where a benefit is being paid to a person (P), the scheme manager may at any time require that evidence be provided, by such date as the scheme manager may specify, to establish—

a

the identity of P; and

b

P's continuing entitlement to the benefit.

2

If the evidence is not provided by the date specified, the scheme manager may withhold the whole or any part of the benefit.

3

If a benefit ceases to be payable because P ceases to meet the incapacity condition or ceases to meet the total incapacity condition, the power in paragraph (1) may be exercised so as to require P to provide evidence that there has been no such cessation.

Cessation of benefits where no entitlement176

1

This regulation applies if after paying a benefit the scheme manager determines that there was no entitlement or there is no longer an entitlement to the benefit.

2

The scheme manager may—

a

cease to pay the benefit;

b

withhold the whole or any part of the benefit; or

c

recover any payment made if there was no entitlement to the benefit.