The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 219

Prospective

PART 3 N.I. CONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT

Conditions relating to national insurance and relevant earnings N.I.

8.—(1) A claimant’s relevant earnings for the purposes of paragraph 1(2)(a) of Schedule 1 to the Act (employment and support allowance: conditions relating to national insurance)(1) are the total amount of the claimant’s earnings equal to the lower earnings limit for the base tax year.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), earnings which exceed the lower earnings limit are to be disregarded.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 8 in operation at 27.9.2017, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

Paragraph 1(2) was substituted by section 12 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010