Pension Age Winter Heating Payment (PAWHP): draft regulations 2024

Part 7 - Periods in respect of a re-determination request

Periods in respect of a re-determination request

17.—(1) The period for requesting a re-determination of entitlement to Pension Age Winter Heating Payment under section 41 of the 2018 act (right to request re-determination) is 42 days beginning with the day that the individual is informed, in accordance with section 40 of the 2018 Act (notice of determination), of the right to make the request.

(2) In relation to determining entitlement to Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, the period allowed for re-determination (within the meaning of section 43 of the 2018 Act (duty to re-determine)) is 56 days beginning with—

(a) the day that the request for a re-determination is received by the Scottish Ministers,

(b) where the request for a re-determination is received by the Scottish Ministers later than the period prescribed by paragraph (1), the day on which the Scottish Ministers, or, on appeal, the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland, decide that the individual in question has a good reason for not requesting the re-determination sooner, or

(c) where the Scottish Ministers have informed the individual of their decision that the request for re-determination was not made in such form as the Scottish Ministers require, the day on which it is subsequently decided by the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland that the individual in question has made the request in such form as the Scottish Ministers require.