The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Making of payments which have been suspended

20.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), payment of a benefit suspended in accordance with regulation 16 shall be made where—

(a) in a case to which regulation 16(2) or (3)(a)(i) to (iii) applies, the Department is satisfied that the benefit suspended is properly payable and no outstanding issues remain to be resolved;

(b) in a case to which regulation 16(3)(a)(iv) applies, the Department is satisfied that it has been notified of the address at which the person is residing; or

(c) in a case to which regulation 16(3)(b) applies, an appeal is no longer pending and the benefit suspended remains payable following the determination of the appeal.

(2) Where regulation 16(4)(a) applies, payment of a benefit suspended shall be made if, within one month of the date on which the Department received a copy of the tribunal’s decision, it has not notified the claimant in writing that it has requested, pursuant to regulation 53(4), a statement of the reasons for the decision.

(3) Where regulation 16(4)(b) or (c) applies, payment of a benefit suspended shall be made if the Department fails to notify the claimant in writing, within one month of the date on which it receives the reasons in writing for the decision on appeal which was pending for the purposes of regulation 16(3)(b), that an appeal against the decision has been brought (or, as the case may be, an application for leave to appeal against the decision has been made).

(4) Payment of benefit which has been suspended in accordance with regulation 19 for failure to submit to a medical examination shall be made where the Department is satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the person referred to in that regulation to submit to a medical examination.