PART 4Disability assistance: Northern Ireland

Disability assistance: capital and income disregards

Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 200319

1

The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 200331 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 15(1) (income for the purposes of the Act), after sub-paragraph (qc) insert—

qd

disability assistance given in accordance with regulations made under section 31 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018;

3

In Part 1 of Schedule 5 (capital disregarded for the purpose of calculating income), in paragraph 20(2), after head (s) insert—

t

disability assistance given in accordance with regulations made under section 31 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.