Regulation 64A Hardship paymentsF1

The Secretary of State must make a hardship payment to a claimant only where—

(a)

the Secretary of State is satisfied that the claimant is or will be in hardship unless a hardship payment is made;

(b)

the claimant’s employment and support allowance has been reduced in accordance with regulation 63;

(c)

the claimant meets the conditions of entitlement to an income-related employment and support allowance;

(d)

the claimant completes and submits an application —

(i)

approved for the purpose by the Secretary of State, or in such other form as the Secretary of State accepts as sufficient, and

(ii)

in such manner as the Secretary of State determines; and

(e)

the claimant provides such information or evidence as the Secretary of State may require, in such manner as the Secretary of State determines.

Annotations

F1: Regs. 64A-64D inserted (3.12.2012) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2756), regs. 1(1), 6 (with reg. 1(2))

F1: Section 3(3) is cited for the power to prescribe a payment under paragraph (b) of the definition of “pension payment”.
F2: Section 22 is cited insofar as it relates to paragraphs 1 to 3, 6, 7, 8(1), 9 and 10 of Schedule 2.
F3: Section 24(1) is cited for the definition of “employment” and “employed”, “period of limited capability for work”, “prescribed”, “regulations” and “week”.
F4: Paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 1 is cited for the definition of “couple”, “education” and “remunerative work”.
F5: 2007 c. 5.
F6: 1992 c. 5.
F7: 1998 c. 14.