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The Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016
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- 2016 No. 216
- PART 6
- CHAPTER 4
- Regulation 76
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76.—(1) This regulation applies where a person receives a payment from a scheme established or approved by the Secretary of State or from a trust established with funds provided by the Secretary of State for the purpose of—
(a)providing compensation [F1or support] in respect of [F2any of the following] —
(i)a person having been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease or infected from contaminated blood products,
(ii)the bombings in London on 7th July 2005,
(iii)person's who have been interned or suffered forced labour, injury, property loss or loss of a child during the Second World War, F3...
[F4(iv)the terrorist attacks in London on 22nd March 2017 or 3rd June 2017,
(v)the bombing in Manchester on 22nd May 2017, F5...]
[F6(vi)the fire at Grenfell Tower on 14th June 2017; F7...]
[F8(vii)historic institutional child abuse in the United Kingdom;]
(b)supporting persons with a disability to live independently in their accommodation.
[F9(1A) This regulation also applies where a person receives a payment from—
(a)the National Emergences Trust, registered charity number 1182809;
(b)the Child Migrants Trust, registered charity number 1171479;
(c)the Royal Borough of Kensington or Chelsea or a registered charity where the payment is made because a person was affected by the Grenfell Tower on 14th June 2017 or is a personal representative of such a person.]
[F10(d)the scheme established by the Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Act 2020]
(2) Any such payment, if it is capital, is to be disregarded in the calculation of the person's capital and, if it is income, is to be disregarded in the calculation of the person's income.
(3) In relation to a claim for universal credit made by the partner, parent, son or daughter of a diagnosed or infected person referred to in paragraph (1)(a)(i) a payment received from the scheme or trust or from the diagnosed or infected person or from that person's estate is to be disregarded if it would be disregarded in relation to an award of state pension credit by virtue of paragraph 13 or 15 of Schedule 5 to the State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.
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F1Words in reg. 76(1)(a) inserted (8.5.2018) by The Universal Credit (Persons Required to Provide Information, Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/92), regs. 1(2), 6(13)(a)
F2Words in reg. 76(1)(a) inserted (5.1.2022) by The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/345), regs. 1(1), 8(2)(i)
F3Word in reg. 76(1)(a)(iii) omitted (8.5.2018) by virtue of The Universal Credit (Persons Required to Provide Information, Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/92), regs. 1(2), 6(13)(b)
F4Reg. 76(1)(a)(iv)(v) inserted (8.5.2018) by The Universal Credit (Persons Required to Provide Information, Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/92), regs. 1(2), 6(13)(c)
F5Word in reg. 76(1)(a)(v) omitted (15.7.2020) by virtue of The Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/108), regs. 1(1), 8(5)(a)(i)
F6Reg. 76(1)(a)(vi) inserted (15.7.2020) by The Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/108), regs. 1(1), 8(5)(a)(ii)
F7Word in reg. 76(1)(a)(vi) omitted (5.1.2022) by virtue of The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/345), regs. 1(1), 8(2)(ii)
F8Reg. 76(1)(a)(vii) inserted (5.1.2022) by The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/345), regs. 1(1), 8(2)(iii)
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