Amendment of regulation 19 of the Claims and Payments Regulations
5. In regulation 19(3) of the Claims and Payments Regulations (time for claiming benefit) for the words “the prescribed time shall be extended to one month” there shall be substituted the words
“the prescribed time shall be extended–
(a)except in a case to which sub-paragraph (b) applies, to one month, and
(b)where the benefit claimed is family credit and there has been a previous award of that benefit, to one month from the day following the 14th day after the last day of that award.”.