Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations

19.—(1) The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(1) are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 15(1) (income for the purposes of the Act) for sub-paragraph (m) substitute—

“(m) bereavement support payment under section 29 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015;”.

(3) In Part 1 of Schedule 5 (income from capital: capital disregarded for the purpose of calculating income)—

(a) in paragraph 20(2) after sub-paragraph (n) insert—

“(na) bereavement support payment under section 29 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015.”; and

(b) after paragraph 23C(2) insert—

“23D.   A payment of bereavement support payment in respect of the rate set out in regulation 3(2) or (5) (rate of bereavement support payment) of the Bereavement Support Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017, but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment.”.

(1)

S.R. 2003 No. 28; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2008 No. 286 and S.R. 2011 No. 357

(2)

Paragraph 23C was inserted by regulation 14(6)(b) of S.R. 2011 No. 357