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The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Universal Credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

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Discretionary housing support: prevention of double paymentN.I.

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22.  In the Discretionary Financial Assistance regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, in regulation 3 (circumstances in which discretionary housing payments may be made), at the end add—

(n)a reduction under regulation 81 of the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 of the amount of universal credit to which a person is entitled if that reduction—

(i)relates to the universal credit of a person who is entitled to a welfare supplementary payment under Chapter 2 of Part 3 of the Welfare Supplementary Payment (Universal Credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025, and

(ii)is no more than the amount determined under regulation 19 of those Regulations..

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I1Reg. 22 in operation at 20.3.2025, see reg. 1(2)

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