Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Income Support (Transitional) Regulations 1987 by providing for a person’s transitional addition not to be reduced by any increase in his applicable amount in the benefit week commencing 9th October 1989 consequent upon the introduction of the new pensioner premium for persons 75 and over, or upon the uprating of the higher pensioner premium, or by any increase in the applicable amount consequent upon attendance on a training course (regulation 3(b) in so far as it inserts new paragraphs (1D) and (1E)); and provide, in urgent cases, for the addition to be reduced by any increase in a person’s applicable amount (regulation 3(a)).

They also make provision for a person to be re-entitled to a transitional addition or special transitional addition where he has ceased to be so entitled because he or his partner is engaged in remunerative work if before the end of the permitted period he ceases to be so engaged; and provide for the permitted period in such cases to be 12 weeks, or the lesser period of eight weeks if the claimant’s applicable amount is subject to a reduction, or he has left the employment within 6 weeks or he was engaged in remunerative work, in relevant education or a student within the preceding 26 weeks (regulations 2, 3(c) to (e) and 4); and, where a higher pensioner premium or disability premium again becomes applicable to the claimant, provide for the addition not to be reduced by any increase in his applicable amount attributable to that premium (regulation 3(b) in so far as it inserts new paragraph (1F)).

The Regulations are made before the expiry of 6 months from the commencement of the enactment under which they are made; they are accordingly exempt by section 61(5) of the Social Security Act 1986 from reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee and have not been so referred.