# The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1988, Regulation 5: Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations


In regulation 7(1) of the principal Regulations (entitlement to payments for funeral expenses)—
(a) 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 funeral payment, been awarded either income support, family credit or housing benefit; and”
(b) in sub-paragraph (d) 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.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/36/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-5
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