Regulation 14 Amendment of the Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1988

In the Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1988^f1, in regulation 16(8) (limitations on deductions from prescribed benefits), for the definition of “specified benefit”^f2 there shall be substituted—

• ““specified benefit” means—

  1. (a)

     a jobseeker’s allowance, or income support which is either paid alone or paid together with any incapacity benefit, retirement pension or severe disablement allowance in a combined payment in respect of any period; and

  2. (b)

     income support and, where paid to the beneficiary concurrently with income support in respect of any period but not in a combined payment, incapacity benefit, retirement pension or severe disablement allowance,

  but does not include any sum payable by way of child maintenance bonus in accordance with section 10 of the Child Support Act 1995^f3 and the Social Security (Child Maintenance Bonus) Regulations 1996^f4.”.