The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Carer Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

EligibilityN.I.

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

4.—(1) A person is entitled to welfare supplementary payment under this Part if the following conditions are met—

(a)the carer's allowance entitlement condition,

(b)the PIP daily living component refusal condition, and

(c)the termination of carer's allowance condition.

(2) The carer's allowance entitlement condition is that a person is in receipt of carer's allowance under section 70 of the Contributions and Benefits Act M1, in respect of a caree, on the transition date.

(3) The PIP daily living component refusal condition is that following a transitional assessment determination the caree is not awarded the daily living component of personal independence payment.

(4) The termination of carer's allowance condition is that, in consequence of the PIP daily living component refusal condition, the decision of the Department to award carer's allowance is superseded by a decision of the Department to not award carer's allowance.

Marginal Citations

M1Section 70 was amended by regulations 2(2) and 3 of S.R. 2002 No. 321, regulation 2(3) of S.R. 2011 No. 356 and is amended by regulation 5(2) of S.R. 2016 No. 228