12. In Schedule 9 (deductions from benefit and direct payment to third parties), in paragraph 1 (interpretation), in the definition of “specified benefit”(1)—
(a)for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted—
“(a)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”; and
(b)paragraph (b) shall be omitted.