The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

CHAPTER 2 N.I. Deductions from the contributory allowance

Permanent health insurance N.I.

72.—(1) For the purposes of sections 2(1)(c) and 3 of the Act (deductions from contributory allowance) pension payment is to include a permanent health insurance payment.

(2) In this regulation and regulation 75 “permanent health insurance payment” means any periodical payment arranged by an employer under an insurance policy providing benefits in connection with physical or mental illness or disability, in relation to a former employee on the termination of that person’s employment.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 72 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

[F1 Financial Assistance Scheme N.I.

72A.— (1) For the purposes of sections 2(1)(c) and 3 of the Act (deductions from contributory allowance) pension payment is to include a Financial Assistance Scheme payment.

(2) In this regulation “Financial Assistance Scheme payment” means a payment made under the Financial Assistance Scheme Regulations 2005.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 72A inserted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/413), regs. 1(1), 3(7)

Councillor’s allowance N.I.

73.  For the purposes of section 3(1)(c) of the Act—

(a) a councillor’s allowance is a payment of a prescribed description; and

(b) the prescribed bodies carrying out public or local functions are district councils.

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 73 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

Deductions for pension payment and PPF payment N.I.

74.—(1) Where—

(a) a claimant is entitled to a contributory allowance in respect of any period of a week or part of a week;

(b) there is—

(i) a pension payment,

(ii) a PPF periodic payment, or

(iii) any combination of the payments specified in heads (i) and (ii),

payable to that person in respect of that period (or a period which forms part of that period or includes that period or part of it); and

(c) the amount of the payment, or payments when taken together, exceeds—

(i) if the period in question is a week, £85∙00, or

(ii) if that period is not a week, such proportion of the amount mentioned in head (i) as falls to be calculated in accordance with regulation 94(1) or (6) (calculation of weekly amount of income),

the amount of that allowance is to be reduced by an amount equal to 50 per cent. of the excess.

(2) For the purposes of this Chapter “payment” means a payment referred to in paragraph (1)(b).

Commencement Information

I3 Reg. 74 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

Payments treated as not being payments to which section 3 of the Act applies N.I.

75.  The following payments are to be treated as not being payments to which section 3 of the Act applies—

(a) any pension payment made to a claimant as a beneficiary on the death of a member of any pension scheme;

(b) any PPF periodic payment made to a claimant as a beneficiary on the death of a person entitled to such a payment;

(c) where a pension scheme is in deficit or has insufficient resources to meet the full pension payment, the extent of the shortfall;

(d) any pension payment made under an instrument specified in section 639(2) of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003(1);

(e) any guaranteed income payment;

(f) any permanent health insurance payment in respect of which the employee had contributed to the premium to the extent of more than 50 per cent.

Commencement Information

I4 Reg. 75 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

Deductions for councillor’s allowance N.I.

76.—(1) Where the net amount of councillor’s allowance to which a claimant is entitled in respect of any week exceeds [F2 £92∙00,] an amount equal to the excess is to be deducted from the amount of a contributory allowance to which that person is entitled in respect of that week, and only the balance remaining (if any) is to be payable.

(2) In paragraph (1) “net amount”, in relation to any councillor’s allowance to which a claimant is entitled, means the aggregate amount of the councillor’s allowance or remuneration to which that claimant is entitled for the week in question, reduced by the amount of any payment in respect of expenses wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred by that claimant, in that week, in the performance of the duties of a councillor.

Textual Amendments

F2 Sum in Reg. 76(1) substituted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/413), regs. 1(1), 3(8)

Commencement Information

I5 Reg. 76 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

Date from which payments are to be taken into account N.I.

77.  Where regulations 74(1) and 76(1) apply, deductions must have effect, calculated where appropriate in accordance with regulation 94(1) or (6), from the first day of the benefit week in which the payment or councillor’s allowance is paid to a claimant who is entitled to a contributory allowance in that week.

Commencement Information

I6 Reg. 77 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

Date from which a change in the rate of the payment takes effect N.I.

78.  Where a payment or councillor’s allowance is already being made to a claimant and the rate of that payment or that allowance changes, the deduction at the new rate must take effect, calculated where appropriate in accordance with regulation 94(1) or (6), from the first day of the benefit week in which the new rate of the payment or councillor’s allowance is paid.

Commencement Information

I7 Reg. 78 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

Calculation of payment made other than weekly N.I.

79.—(1) Where the period in respect of which a payment or councillor’s allowance is paid is otherwise than weekly, an amount calculated or estimated in accordance with regulation 94(1) or (6) is to be regarded as the weekly amount of that payment or allowance.

(2) In determining the weekly payment, where 2 or more payments are payable to a claimant, each payment is to be calculated separately in accordance with regulation 94(1) or (6) before aggregating the sum of those payments for the purposes of the reduction of a contributory allowance in accordance with regulation 74.

Commencement Information

I8 Reg. 79 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

(1)

2003 c. 1