The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Carer Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 253

PART 2 N.I. Welfare Supplementary Payment as a result of loss of Carer's Allowance on caree's transition from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment

[F1 Change in the amount of contributory benefit N.I.

5A.— (1) This regulation applies if there is a change in the amount of contributory benefit (within the meaning of regulation 5) that a person is entitled to.

(2) The amount of welfare supplementary payment the person is entitled to must be recalculated in accordance with the provisions set out in regulation 5.

(3) The effective date of the change in the amount of contributory benefit, for the purposes of calculating the person’s entitlement to welfare supplementary payment, is the date on which the change in the person’s award of contributory benefit takes effect.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 5A inserted (6.2.2017) by The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/28), regs. 1(2), 40