The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1997

Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987

5.—(1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraph.

(2) In paragraph 10 of Schedule 9A (deductions of mortgage interest from benefit and payment to qualifying lenders—provision of information)—

(a)at the beginning of both sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) there shall be inserted the words “Subject to sub-paragraph (4),”;

(b)after sub-paragraph (3) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(4) Where a claimant or his partner is a person to whom either paragraph 1A of Schedule 3 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (housing costs) or paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (housing costs) refers, the information to which sub-paragraphs (2) and (3)(b) refer shall be provided at the request of the Secretary of State on the anniversary of the date on which the housing costs in respect of mortgage interest were first brought into account in determining the applicable amount of the person concerned.”.