Regulation 10 Amendment of the Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1988

The Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1988^f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

In regulation 1(2) (definitions) at the appropriate place in the alphabetical order, insert—

• ““bereavement benefit” means a benefit referred to in section 20(1)(ea) of the Contributions and Benefits Act;

• “bereavement payment” means the sum specified in Part II of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act and referred to in section 36 of that Act^f2;”.

In regulation 8(1) (which specifies payments which can be recovered because they were not made on a prescribed date), after sub-paragraph (h)^f3, insert—

“(i)

any bereavement benefit other than a bereavement payment.”.