The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2010

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976 (S.I. 1976/409), the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1968) and the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/991).

Regulation 2 amends the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976 to increase, from £95 to £100, the amount of weekly earnings a person can receive before being treated as gainfully employed for the purposes of entitlement to carer’s allowance.

Regulation 3 amends the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 to update references to certain social fund benefits; to make provision in relation to death and a change in rate for the purposes of retirement pension; to provide for attendance allowance or disability living allowance to be paid at specified intervals not exceeding 4 weeks; to allow for deductions to be made from benefit where persons residing in approved premises (under section 13 of the Offender Management Act 2007) have built up arrears of service charges; and to decrease from £0.55 to £0.45 the fee which qualifying lenders pay for the purpose of defraying administrative expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in making payments in respect of mortgage interest to qualifying lenders.

Regulation 4 amends the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 to make provision in relation to the supersession of decisions where legislation is due to come into force; the effective date for late notification of change of circumstances in relation to attendance allowance and disability living allowance; and the date on which entitlement to state pension credit terminates on the death of the claimant.

A full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has only a negligible impact on the private or voluntary sectors.