The Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Amendment Regulations 1993
These Regulations amend the Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1988 so as to provide that where an interim payment of income support is made to a person who is entitled to receive child support maintenance under the Child Support Act 1991, or maintenance under a court order or a maintenance agreement, the requirement in regulation 2(2) that he shall be given notice of his liability to have the payment brought into account and to repay it is omitted.A new sub-paragraph is added to regulation 4(3) so that where an interim payment of income support has been made to such a person it may be determined that it has been overpaid.Regulation 7 is amended so as to provide for child support maintenance in respect of the period between the effective date of a maintenance assessment and the making of that assessment (which will always be later) to be prescribed income for the purposes of section 74(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.That section makes provision for cases where an amount of income support is paid because some other income has not been paid at a prescribed time but is subsequently paid.