Income support, jobseeker’s allowance and housing benefit: personal allowances in respect of children and young persons2
1
In each of the provisions specified in paragraph (2) (which specify the personal allowances to be applied in respect of children and young persons when calculating applicable amounts)—
a
in column (2) of the table, in entry (a), for “£20.20” there shall be substituted “£24.90”;
b
for columns (1) and (2) of the table there shall be substituted the following—
Person in respect of the period—
- a
beginning on, and including, that person’s date of birth and ending on the day preceding the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday;
a
£25.90;
b
beginning on, and including, the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday and ending on the day preceding that person’s nineteenth birthday.
b
£30.95.
2
The provisions specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—
a
paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 198710;
b
paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 2 to the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 198711;
c
paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 199612.