PART 2N.I.BENEFIT CAP

Amendment of the Discretionary Financial Assistance RegulationsN.I.

5.  In regulation 3 of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 M1 after paragraph (j) add the following paragraph—

(k)a reduction under regulation 73D of the Housing Benefit Regulations of the amount of housing benefit to which a person is entitled if that reduction—

(i)relates to the housing benefit of a person who is entitled to a welfare supplementary payment under Part 2 of the Welfare Supplementary Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016; and

(ii)is no more than the amount specified in regulation 4(4) of those Regulations..

Marginal Citations

M1S.R. 2001 No. 216; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 2002 No. 80, SR. 2008 No.111, S.R. 2011 No. 291, S.R. 2012 No. 44 and S.R. 2014 No. 150