Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretationI1

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Claims and Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 10th December 2007.

In regulations 4 and 5 “the Administration Act” means the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992.

In regulations 2 to 4—

• “specified benefit” means one or more of the following benefits—

  1. (a)

     attendance allowance;

  2. (b)

     F1bereavement support payment under section 29 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015;

  3. (c)

     ...

  4. (d)

     carer’s allowance;

  5. (e)

     disability living allowance;

  6. (ee)

     F2employment and support allowance;

  7. (g)

     incapacity benefit;

  8. (h)

     income support;

  9. (i)

     jobseeker’s allowance;

  10. (j)

      retirement pension;

  11. (k)

      state pension credit;

  12. (l)

      widowed parent’s allowance;

  13. (m)

      winter fuel payment;

• “administering authority” means an authority administering housing benefit and includes persons providing services to an administering authority and persons authorised to exercise any function of an administering authority relating to housing benefit;

• “the Department” includes persons providing services to the Department.