The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations

4.—(1) The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(1) are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation)—

(a) in the appropriate place insert—

““child abuse payment” means a payment from a scheme established or approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing compensation in respect of historic institutional child abuse in the United Kingdom;”;

(b) in the definition of “qualifying person”(2), after “Grenfell Tower payment” insert “, a child abuse payment or a Windrush payment”;

(c) after the definition of “the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund”(3) add—

““Windrush payment” means a payment made under the Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Act 2020(4).”.

(3) In paragraph 14(8) (persons residing with the claimant) of Schedule 2 (housing costs), after sub-paragraph (ba)(5) insert—

“(bb) any child abuse payment;

(bc) any Windrush payment;”.

(4) In paragraph 15 of Schedule 5 (income from capital)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1A)(6) after “Grenfell Tower payment” insert “, child abuse payment, Windrush payment”;

(b) in each of the sub-paragraphs (2) to (6)(7), after “Grenfell Tower payment” insert “, a child abuse payment or a Windrush payment”.

(1)

S.R. 2003 No. 28; relevant amending Rules are S.R. 2004 No. 213, S.R. 2005 Nos. 536 and 550, S.R. 2010 No. 69, S.R. 2011 No. 357, S.R. 2017 Nos. 205 and 219 and S.R. 2020 No. 108

(2)

The definition of “qualifying person” was amended by regulation 2 of S.R. 2004 No. 213, regulation 6(2)(b) of S.R. 2005 No. 550, regulation 6(3)(a) of S.R. 2010 No. 69, regulation 14(2)(b) of S.R. 2011 No. 357, regulation 4(2)(b) of S.R. 2017 No. 205, regulation 5(2)(c) of S.R. 2017 No. 219 and regulation 4(2)(b) of S.R. 2020 No. 108

(3)

The definition of “the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund” was added by regulation 4(2)(c) of S.R. 2017 No. 205

(4)

2020 c. 8.

(5)

Head (ba) was inserted by regulation 4(3)(b) of S.R. 2020 No. 108

(6)

Sub-paragraph (1A) was inserted by regulation 4(4)(a)(ii) of S.R. 2020 No. 108

(7)

Sub-paragraphs (2) to (5) were amended by Article 2(3) and paragraph 30(5)(e) of Schedule 3 to S.R. 2005 No. 536, regulation 6(7) of S.R. 2010 No. 69 and regulation 4(4)(a)(iii) of S.R. 2020 No. 108. Sub-paragraph (6) was amended by regulation 4(4)(a)(iv) of S.R. 2020 No. 108