Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

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Payments.

[1993 s206(1)]

242.—(1) Regulations may provide for—

(a) the time and manner of payment of benefit,

(b) the information and evidence to be given by a claimant or beneficiary when applying for payment of benefit, and

(c) in consultation with An Post, the payment of specified benefits through An Post.

(2) Regulations made under this section as to the time of payment of benefit may provide—

(a) notwithstanding anything contained in this Act—

(i) in the case of specified benefits (other than child benefit), for adjusting the commencement and termination of that benefit, or for changes in the rate of that benefit, so that payments shall not be made in respect of periods less than a week or at different rates for different parts of a week,

(ii) in the case of child benefit, for adjusting the commencement and termination of that benefit, or for changes in the rate of that benefit, so that payments shall not be made at different rates for different parts of a month,

(b) for extinguishing the right to any sum payable by way of benefit where payment of that benefit is not obtained within 6 months or any shorter period that may be prescribed from the time at which that sum is receivable in accordance with regulations.

(3) Notwithstanding this Act, regulations may provide for payment of benefit, in the circumstances and subject to the conditions and for the periods that may be prescribed, to a claimant or beneficiary who has attained pensionable age.