Statutory Instruments
2004 No. 1821
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2004
Made
14th July 2004
Laid before Parliament
21st July 2004
Coming into force
6th October 2004
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 5(1)(a), 189(1) and (4) and 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992( 1 ) and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it( 2 ), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 6th October 2004.
Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987
2. In the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987( 3 )—
(a) in regulation 19( 4 ) (time for claiming benefit), in paragraph (3), omit sub-paragraph (ff)( 5 ), and
(b) in Schedule 4 (prescribed times for claiming benefit) after paragraph 11( 6 )—
(i) in column (1) (description of benefit) add—
“ 12. State pension credit. ” , and
(ii) in the corresponding part of column (2) (prescribed time for claiming benefit) add—
“ As regards any day on which, apart from satisfying the condition of making a claim, the claimant is entitled to benefit, that day and the period of 12 months immediately following it. ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Malcolm Wicks
Minister of State,
Department for Work and Pensions
14th July 2004
1992 c. 5 ; section 191 is cited because of the meaning it gives to “prescribe”.
See the Social Security Administration Act 1992, section 173(1)(b).
S.I. 1987/1968 .
Regulation 19 was substituted by S.I. 1997/793 .
Sub-paragraph (ff) was inserted by S.I. 2002/3019 .
Paragraph 11 was added by S.I. 1991/2741 .