PART IAMENDMENTS OF THE ADMINISTRATION ACT
Introductory
1. Part I of the Administration Act (claims, evidence, and regulations about claims and payment) is amended as follows.
Entitlement dependent on making of claim
2. In section 1 (which makes entitlement dependent on the making of a claim and production, etc. of national insurance numbers and other evidence, and limits backdating to 12 months, etc.) in subsection (4) (benefits to which the section applies) after “(aa) a jobseeker’s allowance;” insert—
“(ab)state pension credit;”.
Power by regulations to make provision relating to claims, time limits, evidence, etc.
3. In section 5 (regulations about claims for and payments of benefit)—
(a)in subsection (2) (benefits to which the section applies) after paragraph (aa) insert—
“(ab)state pension credit;”;
(b)after subsection (2) insert—
“(2A) The references in paragraphs (h) and (hh) of subsection (1) above to information or evidence needed for the determination of a claim or of any question arising in connection with a claim or (as the case may be) for a determination whether a decision on an award should be revised or should be superseded, includes, in the case of state pension credit, a reference to information or evidence as to the likelihood of future changes in a person’s circumstances which is needed for determining—
(a)whether a period should be specified as an assessed income period under section 6 of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 in relation to any decision; and
(b)if so, the length of the period to be so specified.”.