The Social Security (Child Maintenance Premium) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations

2.  For paragraph 69 of Schedule 9 to the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“69.— (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), any payment of child maintenance where the child or young person in respect of whom the payment is made is a member of the claimant’s family except where the person making the payment is the claimant or the claimant’s partner.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), where more than one payment of child maintenance –

(a) in respect of more than one child or young person; or

(b) made by more than one person in respect of a child or young person,

falls to be taken into account in any week, all such payments shall be aggregated and treated as if they were a single payment.

(3) No more than £10 shall be disregarded in respect of each week to which any payment of child maintenance is attributed in accordance with regulations 28, 29, 31 and 32(2) (calculation of income) or regulations 60B to 60D(3) (treatment of child support maintenance).

(4) In this paragraph “child maintenance” shall have the same meaning as that prescribed for the purposes of section 72A of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (payment of benefit where maintenance payments collected by Department) and shall include any payment made by the Department in lieu of such maintenance.”.

(1)

S.R. 1987 No. 459; paragraph 69 is added by regulation 2(1)(b) of S.R. 2001 No. 25

(2)

Regulation 28 was amended by S.R. 1991 No. 338; regulation 29 was amended by S.R. 1988 No. 431, S.R. 1989 No. 365, S.R. 1990 No. 131, S.R. 1997 No. 22, S.R. 1998 No. 81, S.R. 1999 No. 381 and S.R. 2000 Nos. 74 and 241; regulation 31 was amended by S.R. 1988 Nos. 146 and 318, S.R. 1995 No. 67, S.R. 1996 No. 199, S.R. 2000 No. 74 and S.R. 2003 No. 338; regulation 32 was amended by S.R. 1988 Nos. 146 and 318, S.R. 1989 No. 365, S.R. 1995 No. 67, S.R. 1996 No. 199, S.R. 1997 No. 22 and S.R. 2000 No. 241

(3)

Regulations 60B to 60D were inserted by S.R. 1993 No. 167 and were amended by S.R. 1996 Nos. 202 and 405 and S.R. 2001 No. 29