The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987

Family credit

27.—(1) Subject to regulation 21, family credit shall be payable in respect of any benefit week on the Tuesday next following the end of that week by means of a book of serial orders unless in any case the Secretary of State arranges otherwise.

(2) Where the entitlement to family credit is less than 50 pence a week that amount shall not be payable.