PART 5 Miscellaneous Amendments

CHAPTER 3 Adjustments and Deductions

Amendment of the Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Regulations 2001

56.—(1) The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Regulations 2001 M1 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (disqualification period)—

(a) in paragraph (1) M2 —

(i) in sub-paragraph (a)(iii) after “state pension credit” insert “ , employment and support allowance ”; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b)(iii) for “or state pension credit” substitute “ , state pension credit or employment and support allowance ”; and

(b) in paragraph (3)(c) M3 after “state pension credit” insert “ , employment and support allowance ”.

(3) In regulation 3 (reduction of income support)—

(a) in the heading after “income support” add “ and income-related employment and support allowance ”;

(b) in paragraph (1) after “income support” the first time it occurs insert “ or an income-related employment and support allowance ”;

(c) in paragraph (4) after “income support” each time it occurs insert “ or an income-related employment and support allowance ”;

(d) in paragraph (5) after “income support” insert “ or an income-related employment and support allowance ”; and

(e) in paragraph (6) after “Regulations” add “ or, as the case may be, regulation 2(1) of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 ”.

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2001/4022.

M2 Paragraph (1) was amended by S.I. 2002/486 and 1792.

M3 Paragraph (3) was amended by S.I. 2002/1792.