The State Pension Credit (Decisions and Appeals-Amendments) Regulations 2003

• Citation: S.I. 2003/1581
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the State Pension Credit (Decisions and Appeals-Amendments) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Section 2 Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999

In paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 (decisions against which no appeal lies: claims and payments)—

(a) after sub-paragraph (b), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

(bb) regulation 4D (making a claim for state pension credit) or 4E (making a claim before attaining the qualifying age);

(b) after sub-paragraph (m), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

(mm) regulation 26B (payment of state pension credit);

Section 3 Amendment of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001

At the end of the Schedule to the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001 (decisions against which no appeal lies), there shall be added the following paragraph—

(6) No appeal shall lie against the calculation or estimate of the claimant's, or the claimant’s partner's, income or capital used by a relevant authority in accordance with regulation 23(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or regulation 15(1) of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations (calculation of claimant’s income in savings credit only cases), as modified, in both cases, by the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations 2003 .