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The Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016
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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 in respect of—
(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, or
(b)supporting persons with a disability to live independently in their accommodation.
(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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