# Social Security Act 1985, Paragraph 7 The following subsection shall be added at the end of section 18 of that Act (duration of unemployment benefit)β€” β€œ(4) Regulations may provide for treating a person for the purposes of this section as having been entitled to unemployment benefit for any day if he would have been entitled to it but forβ€” (a) failure to make a claim; or (b) failure to make a claim within the prescribed time; but a person is not to be so treated where he shows that he did not intend, by so failing, to avoid the necessity of requalifying for benefit.”. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/53/schedule/5/paragraph/7 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1985/schedule-5/paragraph-7 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.