Entitlement to welfare supplementary payment where couple separates
21. After regulation 4E insert—
“Entitlement to welfare supplementary payment where couple separates
4F.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where—
(a)A and B were a couple,
(b)on or after 31 May 2016, A and B ceased to be a couple, and
(c)immediately before that, either the couple or A were entitled to a welfare supplementary payment under this Part.
(2) Where this paragraph applies, regulation 4(2)(a) is to be treated as being satisfied in respect of B on the date that A and B cease to be a couple.
(3) Paragraph (4) applies where—
(a)A and B were a couple,
(b)on or after 31 May 2016, A and B ceased to be a couple, and
(c)immediately before that, either the couple or A were entitled to a welfare benefit.
(4) Where this paragraph applies, then for the purposes of regulation 4(2)(a), B is to be treated as if B was entitled to that welfare benefit from the date that the couple or A were entitled to it.”.