
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund (Recovery by Deductions from Benefits) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 11th April 1988.
2 
In these Regulations “the principal Act” means the Social Security Act 1975.
3 
The following benefits are prescribed for the purposes of section 33(6) of the Social Security Act 1986 as benefits from which an award from the social fund may be recovered by deduction—
(a) income support;
(b) family credit;
(c) unemployment benefit under section 14(1)(a) of the principal Act;
(d) sickness benefit under section 14(1)(b) of the principal Act;
(e) invalidity pension under section 15(1) of the principal Act;
(f) invalidity allowance under section 16(1) of the principal Act;
(g) maternity allowance under section 22(1) of the principal Act;
(h) widowed mother’s allowance under section 25(1) and (2) of the principal Act;
(i) widow’s pension under section 26(1) of the principal Act;
(j) retirement pension (Categories A and B) under sections 28(1) and 29(1) of the principal Act;
(k) severe disablement allowance under section 36 of the principal Act;
(l) invalid care allowance under section 37 of the principal Act;
(m) retirement pension (Categories C and D) under section 39(1) of the principal Act;
(n) age addition under section 40(1) and (2) of the principal Act;
(o) increases to unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, invalidity pension and Category A, B and C retirement pension under section 41(1) of the principal Act;
(p) increases to unemployment benefit, sickness benefit and maternity allowance under section 44(1) and (2) of the principal Act;
(q) increases to Category A and Category C retirement pension and to invalidity pension under section 45(2) of the principal Act;
(r) increases to Category A retirement pension under section 45A(1) of the principal Act;
(s) increases to Category A and Category C retirement pension and invalidity pension under section 46(2) of the principal Act;
(t) increases to invalidity pension under section 47(1) of the principal Act;
(u) increases to severe disablement allowance and invalid care allowance payable under section 49(a) and (b) of the principal Act;
(v) disablement benefit under section 57(1) of the principal Act;
(w) reduced earnings allowance under section 59A(1) of the principal Act;
(x) industrial death benefit under sections 67 to 70 of the principal Act;
(y) additions to Category A and Category B retirement pension under sections 6 to 10 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;
(z) additional pension payable as widows benefit under sections 6 and 13 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;
(aa) additional pension payable as invalidity pension under sections 6 and 14 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;
(bb) invalidity pension under sections 15 and 16 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;
(cc) graduated retirement benefit under sections 36 and 37 of the National Insurance Act 1965.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
Michael Portillo
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health and Social Security
14th January 1988