Part 1: Means-tested additional payments Section 1: Means-tested additional payments: main payments
Section 1 places upon the Secretary of State and HMRC a duty to make payments of £301, £300, and £299 to a person with a qualifying entitlement to a qualifying social security benefit or to tax credits in respect of each qualifying day. Qualifying days will be set in regulations using the delegated powers in this section. A person is defined as an individual or a couple (but not each member of a couple separately).
	Specifically, subsection (1) provides for the Secretary of State to make payments to a person with a qualifying entitlement to a social security benefit in respect of the first qualifying day for the first payment, the second qualifying day for the second payment and the third qualifying day for the third payment.
	Subsection (2) provides for HMRC to make payments to a person who has a qualifying entitlement to child tax credit or working tax credit, but not to a social security benefit, in respect of the first qualifying day for the first payment, the second qualifying day for the second payment and the third qualifying day for the third payment.
	Subsection (3) defines the qualifying social security benefits for the purpose of this Act.
	Subsections (4), (6) and (7) provide for the latest qualifying date in respect of the first, second and third payments respectively, and specifies that the qualifying date for each will be specified in regulations. The qualifying date can be earlier, but no later, than the dates in subsections (4), (6) and (7). These qualifying dates are not dates of payment.
	Subsections (5) and (8) provide those regulations may specify a qualifying date prior to the date those regulations come into force and in respect of the first qualifying date also before the Act or the regulations come into force.