Regulation 21 Direct credit transfer

The Secretary of State may arrange for benefit to be paid by way of direct credit transfer into a bank or other account nominated by the person entitled to benefit or a person acting on their behalf.

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F3Subject to paragraph (3A) benefit shall be paid in accordance with paragraph (1) within seven days of the last day of each successive period of entitlement F4... F5or, so far as concerns working families' tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit, within such time as the Board may direct.

Income Support shall be paid in accordance with paragraph (1) within 7 days of the time determined for the payment of income support in accordance with Schedule 7.

Where child benefit is payable in accordance with paragraph (1), F8an arrangement under that paragraph shall also have effect for any guardian’s allowance to which the claimant is entitled and that allowance shall be paid in the same manner as the child benefit which is due in his case.

Where guardian’s allowance is payable in accordance with paragraph (1), an arrangement under that paragraph shall also have effect for the child benefit to which the claimant is entitled and that child benefit shall be paid in the same manner as the guardian’s allowance which is due in his case.

In respect of benefit which is the subject of an arrangement for payment under this regulation, the Secretary of State F9or the Board may make a particular payment by credit transfer otherwise than is provided by paragraph (3) F10or (3A) if it appears to him F11or them appropriate to do so for the purpose of–

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In relation to payment of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance, references in this regulation to the person entitled to benefit shall be construed as references to the member of the joint-claim couple who is the nominated member for the purposes of section 3B of the Jobseekers Act.

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