Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations

for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following subparagraph—

“(a)

the claimant or the claimant’s partner in respect of the date of the claim for a funeral payment—

(i)

has been awarded income support, family credit, disability working allowance, housing benefit or council tax benefit where, in the case of council tax benefit, that benefit is awarded by virtue only of the claimant or his partner having fulfilled the conditions of entitlement specified in section 131(3) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (entitlement to the appropriate maximum council tax benefit)(^f1); or

(ii)

is a person to whom, by virtue of sub-section (7) of section 131 of that Act, sub-section (6) of that section applies where, on a claim for council tax benefit, the conditions of entitlement specified in section 131(3) and (6) for an award of the alternative maximum council tax benefit are fulfilled; and”;

in paragraph (2)(b) at the end there shall be added the words “and, in the case of cremation, the cost of an ordinary urn”.