The Social Security and Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations

2.  In regulation 32 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) (information to be given when obtaining payment of benefit) for the heading and paragraph (1) there shall be substituted –

“Information to be given and changes to be notified

32.— (1) Except in the case of a jobseeker’s allowance, every beneficiary and every person by whom, or on whose behalf, sums by way of benefit are receivable shall furnish in such manner and at such times as the Department may determine such information or evidence as it may require for determining whether a decision on the award of benefit should be revised under Article 10 of the 1998 Order or superseded under Article 11 of that Order.

(1A) Every beneficiary and every person by whom, or on whose behalf, sums by way of benefit are receivable shall furnish in such manner and at such times as the Department may determine such information or evidence as it may require in connection with payment of the benefit claimed or awarded.

(1B) Except in the case of a jobseeker’s allowance, every beneficiary and every person by whom, or on whose behalf, sums by way of benefit are receivable shall notify the Department of any change of circumstances which it might reasonably be expected to know might affect –

(a) the continuance of entitlement to benefit; or

(b) the payment of the benefit,

as soon as reasonably practicable after the change occurs by giving notice in writing (unless the Department determines in any particular case to accept notice given otherwise than in writing) of any such change to an appropriate office.”.

(1)

S.R. 1987 No. 465; regulation 32(1) was amended by regulation 6(3) of S.R. 1992 No. 453 and regulation 2(16)(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 354