The Social Security Benefits (Maintenance Payments and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996
These Regulations are made by virtue of, and are consequential upon, section 74A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, which was inserted into that Act by section 25 of the Child Support Act 1995, and provides that where the Secretary of State is collecting maintenance payments on behalf of a person who is claiming certain social security benefits, the Secretary of State may disregard those maintenance payments for the purposes of calculating the claimant’s benefit entitlement, and may then retain any such maintenance payments collected by him.