# The Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982, Regulation 40: Disqualification for receipt of benefit, suspension of proceedings on claims and suspension of payment of benefit


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(2) If, without good cause—
(a) a claimant fails to furnish to the prescribed person any information required for the determination of the claim or of any question arising in connection therewith; or
(b) a beneficiary fails to give notice to the prescribed person of any change of circumstances affecting the continuance of the right to benefit or to the receipt thereof, or to furnish as aforesaid any information required for the determination of any question arising in connection with the award; or
(c) a claimant for, or a beneficiary in receipt of, disablement benefit fails to comply with any requirement of regulation 26 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979 (obligations of claimants for, and beneficiaries in receipt of, ... disablement benefit);
he shall, subject to the following provisions of this regulation, if the determining authority so decide, be disqualified for receiving any benefit claimed in respect of the period of such failure.
(3) If a claimant or beneficiary wilfully obstructs, or is guilty of other misconduct in connection with any examination or treatment to which he is required under regulation 26 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulation 1979 to submit himself, or any proceedings under the Act for the determination of his right to benefit or to the receipt thereof, he shall, subject to the provisions of this regulation, be disqualified for receiving any benefit claimed for such period as the determining authority shall determine.
(4) In any case to which any of the foregoing paragraphs of this regulation relates, proceedings on the claim or payment of benefit, as the case may be, may be suspended for such period as the determining authority may determine.
(5) Nothing in this regulation providing for the disqualification for the receipt of benefit for any of the following matters, that is to say:—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) for failure to comply with the requirements of regulation 26 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulation 1979;
(c) for obstruction of, or misconduct in connection with, medical examination or treatment;
shall authorise the disentitlement of a claimant or beneficiary to benefit for a period exceeding 6 weeks on any disqualification.
(6) No person shall be disqualified for receiving any benefit for refusal to undergo a surgical operation not being one of a minor character.
(7) A person who would be entitled to any benefit but for the operation of any of the foregoing provisions of this regulation shall be treated as if he were entitled thereto for the purpose of any rights or obligations under the Act (whether of himself or any other person) which depend on his being so entitled, other than the right to payment of that benefit.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1408/regulation/40 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982/regulation-40
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