Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the State Pension Credit (Decisions and Appeals-Amendments) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999

2.  In paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999(8) (decisions against which no appeal lies: claims and payments)—

(a)after sub-paragraph (b), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(bb)regulation 4D (making a claim for state pension credit) or 4E(9) (making a claim before attaining the qualifying age);”;

(b)after sub-paragraph (m), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(mm)regulation 26B(10)(payment of state pension credit);”.

Amendment of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001

3.  At the end of the Schedule to the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001(11) (decisions against which no appeal lies), there shall be added the following paragraph—

“6.  No appeal shall lie against the calculation or estimate of the claimant's, or the claimant’s partner's, income or capital used by a relevant authority in accordance with regulation 23(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or regulation 15(1) of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations (calculation of claimant’s income in savings credit only cases), as modified, in both cases, by the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations 2003(12).”.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend—

• the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 (S.I.1999/991) to provide that certain administrative decisions relating to claims for, and payment of, state pension credit, do not attract a right of appeal (regulation 2);

• the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001 (S.I.2001/1002) to provide that no appeal lies against calculations and estimates of the income and capital of a claimant for housing benefit or council tax benefit or his partner, where that claimant or his partner has been awarded state pension credit comprising only the savings credit (regulation 3).

These Regulations do not impose a charge on business.