The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/878
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st July 1987.

Section 2 Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979

Regulation 3 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979 (claims not required for entitlement to benefit in certain cases) shall be amended as follows—

(a) the regulation shall be re-numbered as paragraph (1) of regulation 3;

(b) the following paragraphs shall be inserted after that paragraph—

(2) Where invalidity benefit or severe disablement allowance has been claimed and an award of benefit made on that claim, then in respect of the period beginning immediately after the period of that award and ending 26 weeks after the first day of the period of that award it shall not be a condition of entitlement to invalidity benefit or, as the case may be, severe disablement allowance that a claim be made for it.

(3) A person in whose case paragraph (2) of this regulation applies may be deemed to be incapable of work on any day falling within the period for which, under that paragraph, no claim for benefit is required, and an award may be made for the whole or any part of that period, subject to the condition that the beneficiary shall when required to do so prove that he in fact remains so incapable and satisfies all the other conditions of entitlement to benefit; and if he should fail to do so the award shall be reviewed and may be revised.