# The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1988, Regulation 3: Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations


(1) In regulation 5(1) of the principal Regulations (entitlement to payments for maternity expenses) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(a) the claimant or the claimant’s partner has, in respect of the date of the claim for a maternity payment, been awarded either income support or family credit; and”
and in sub-paragraph (c) for the words from “in regulation 7” to the end of that sub-paragraph there shall be substituted “in regulation 19 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987.”
(2) For paragraph (2) of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (amount of maternity payment) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(2) Subject to Part IV of these Regulations, the amount of a maternity payment shall be—
(a) where the claim is made on or after 11th April 1988 and before the confinement, £85 in respect of each expected child, but if the claim was made on an earlier date, £80 in respect of each expected child;
(b) where the claim is made after the confinement, if that confinement has ended on or after 11th April 1988, £85 in respect of each child, including any child who is stillborn, but if the confinement has ended before that date, £80 in respect of each child, including any child who is stillborn;
(c) where the claim is made after a child has been adopted and the adoption has taken place on or after 11th April 1988, £85 in respect of that child, but if the adoption has taken place before that date, £80 in respect of that child.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/36/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-3
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