Regulation 6 Amendment of regulation 19 of the Claims and Payments Regulations

Regulation 19(7) of the Claims and Payments Regulations^f1 (time for claiming benefit) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

At the end of sub-paragraph (f) the word “or” shall be omitted.

In sub-paragraph (g) for the word “sister.” there shall be substituted the words “sister; or”.

After sub-paragraph (g) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(h)

in the case of a claim for disability working allowance, the claimant had previously been entitled to income support, jobseeker’s allowance, incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance (“the previous benefit”), and the claim for disability working allowance was made within one month of expiry of entitlement to the previous benefit.”.