The Social Security (Income Support and Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1995

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Income Support and Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 2nd October 1995.

(2) These Regulations shall have effect in relation to any particular claimant at the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 2nd October 1995 which applies in his case; and for this purpose the expressions “claimant” and “benefit week” have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of the Income Support Regulations.

(3) In these Regulations, the “Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(1).

Housing costs

2.  In the Income Support Regulations, for Schedule 3, there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Direct payments

3.  The provisions of Schedules 9 and 9A to the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987(2) (which relate to direct payments) shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Disregards

4.  The provisions of Schedule 9 to the Income Support Regulations (which specifies sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Revocations and savings

5.—(1) The Regulations specified in column (2) of Schedule 4 to these Regulations are revoked to the extent specified in column (3) of that Schedule.

(2) The revocation by paragraph (1) above and Schedule 4 to these Regulations of any provision previously amended or substituted but subject to a saving for existing beneficiaries does not affect the continued operation of those savings.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

James Arbuthnot

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

26th June 1995