The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Evidence and information

5.  In regulation 7 (evidence and information) –

(a) after paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraphs –

“(1A) A claimant shall furnish such information and evidence as the Department may require as to the likelihood of future changes in his circumstances which is needed to determine –

(a) whether a period should be specified as an assessed income period under section 6 of the 2002 Act in relation to any decision; and

(b) if so, the length of the period to be so specified.

(1B) The information and evidence required under paragraph (1A) shall be furnished within one month of the Department notifying the claimant of the requirement, or within such longer period as the Department considers reasonable in the claimant’s case.

(1C) In the case of a claimant making a claim for state pension credit in the advance period, time begins to run for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (1B) from the day following the end of that period.”; and

(b) in paragraph (4)(1), for “or jobseeker’s allowance”, there shall be substituted “, jobseeker’s allowance or state pension credit”.

(1)

Paragraph 4 was added by regulation 5(3) of S.R. 1995 No. 367 and amended by regulation 2(6)(b) of S.R. 1996 No. 354