The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

11.—(1) Any payment, other than a payment to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, made to the claimant by Trustees in exercise of a discretion exercisable by them.

(2) This sub-paragraph applies to payments made to the claimant by Trustees in exercise of a discretion exercisable by them for the purpose of –

(a) obtaining food, ordinary clothing or footwear or household fuel;

(b) the payment of rent or rates for which that claimant or his partner is liable;

(c) meeting housing costs of a kind specified in Schedule 2.

(3) In a case to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, £20 or –

(a) if the payment is less than £20, the whole payment, or

(b) if, in the claimant’s case, £10 is disregarded in accordance with paragraph 1(a) to (f) or paragraph 7, £10 or the whole payment if it is less than £10.

(4) For the purposes of this paragraph –

“ordinary clothing and footwear” means clothing or footwear for normal daily use, but does not include school uniforms, or clothing and footwear used solely for sporting activities;

“rent or rates” means eligible rent or rates for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 less any deductions in respect of non-dependants which fall to be made under regulation 63 (non-dependant deductions) of those Regulations(1).

(1)

Regulation 63 was amended by regulation 7(a) of S.R. 1989 No. 125, regulation 8 of S.R. 1990 No. 136, regulation 8 of S.R. 1990 No. 345, regulation 2 of S.R. 1992 No. 85, regulation 7(a) of S.R. 1992 No. 549, regulation 9 of S.R. 1993 No. 145, regulation 4(3)(d) of S.R. 1993 No. 195, regulation 4(d) of S.R. 1993 No. 233, regulation 9 of S.R. 1994 No. 404, regulation 10 of S.R. 1996 No. 334, regulation 2 of S.R. 1997 No. 3, regulation 5(2)(a)(ii) of S.R. 1998 No. 81 and Article 19(4) of S.R. 2000 No. 38