Commencement of periodical payments on review

(1) Except where the claimant can prove that he was entitled to a benefit from an earlier date, where a decision is revised on review, so as to award a benefit other than a grant or so as to increase the rate of a benefit, such decision shall have effect from the date of application for review. (2) Where a claimant proves that he was entitled to a benefit from a date prior to the date of his application for review he may be paid such benefit from such earlier date if such earlier date is not earlier than 186 Social Security (a) six months prior to the date of his application for review; (b) the date on which the original award took effect or would have taken effect; (c) the date on which any material change of circumstance that led to the decision on review took place. (3) For the purposes of this Regulation, the date of the decision of the Manager that a matter should, under Regulation 20 (1), be reviewed shall be deemed to be the date of the application for review.