Regulation 7 Evidence and information

F1Subject to paragraph (7), every person who makes a claim for benefit shall furnish such certificates, documents, information and evidence in connection with the claim, or any question arising out of it, as may be required by the F2Board F3or, in a case where regulation 4A applies, the relevant authority and shall do so within one month of being required to do so or such longer period as the Board may consider reasonable.

A claimant shall furnish such information and evidence as the Secretary of State may require as to the likelihood of future changes in his circumstances which is needed to determine—

The information and evidence required under paragraph (1A) shall be furnished within 1 month of the Secretary of State notifying the claimant of the requirement, or within such longer period as the Secretary of State considers reasonable in the claimant’s case.

In the case of a claimant making a claim for state pension credit in the advance period, time begins to run for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (1B) on the day following the end of that period.

F5Subject to paragraph (7), where a benefit may be claimed by either of two partners or where entitlement to or the amount of any benefit is or may be affected by the circumstances of a partner, the Board may require the partner other than the F6claimant to do either or both of the following, within one month of being required to do so or such longer period as the Board may consider reasonable—

In the case of a claim for F7working families' tax credit F8or F9disabled persons' tax credit, the employer of the claimant or, as the case may be, of the partner shallF10, within one month of being required to do so or such longer period as the Board may consider reasonable, furnish such certificates, documents, information and evidence in connection with the claim or any question arising out of it as may be required by the Board.

In the case of a person who is claiming disabled persons' tax credit, working families' tax creditF12, income support F13jobseeker’s allowanceF14, state pension credit or employment and support allowance, where that person or any partner F15has attained the qualifying age and is a member of, or a person deriving entitlement to a pension under, a personal pension scheme, or is a party to, or a person deriving entitlement to a pension under, a retirement annuity contract, he shall where the F16Board so require, within one month of being required to do so or such longer period as the Board may consider reasonable, furnish the following information—

Where the pension fund holder receives from the F17Board a request for details concerning the personal pension scheme or retirement annuity contract relating to a person or any partner to whom paragraph (4) refers, the pension fund holder shallF18, within one month of the request or such longer period as the Board may consider reasonable, provide the Board with any information to which paragraph (6) refers.

The information to which this paragraph refers is—

Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply in the case of jobseeker’s allowance.

Every person providing childcare in respect of which a claimant to whom regulation 46A of the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 applies is incurring relevant childcare charges, including a person providing childcare on behalf of a school, local authority, childcare scheme or establishment within paragraph (2)(b), (c) or (d) of that regulation, shall furnish such certificates, documents, information and evidence in connection with the claim made by the claimant, or any question arising out of it, as may be required by the Board, and shall do so within one month of being required to do so or such longer period as the Board may consider reasonable.

In paragraph (8) “relevant childcare charges” has the meaning given by regulation 46A(2) of the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987.