Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992

20 Descriptions of contributory benefits.N.I.

(1)Contributory benefits under this Part of this Act are of the following descriptions, namely—

(a)unemployment benefit (with increase for adult and, where the beneficiary is over pensionable age, child dependants);

[F1(b)incapacity benefit, comprising—

(i)short-term incapacity benefit; and

(ii)long-term incapacity benefit;]

(d)maternity allowance (with increase for adult dependants);

(e)widow’s benefit, comprising—

(i)widow’s payment;

(ii)widowed mother’s allowance (with increase for child dependants);

(iii)widow’s pension;

(f)retirement pensions of the following categories—

(i)Category A, payable to a person by virtue of his own contributions (with increase for adult and child dependants); and

[F2(ii)Category B, payable to a person by virtue of the contributions of a spouse (with increase for child dependants);]

(g)for existing beneficiaries only, child’s special allowance.

(2)In this Act—

  • “long-term benefit” means—

    (a)

    [F3long-term incapacity benefit;]

    (b)

    a widowed mother’s allowance

    (c)

    a widow’s pension; and

    (d)

    a Category A or Category B retirement pension; and

  • “short-term benefit” means—

    (a)

    unemployment benefit;

[F4(b)short-term incapacity benefit; and]

(c)maternity allowance.

(3)The provisions of this Part of this Act are subject to the provisions of [F5Chapter II of Part III of the Pensions Act (reduction in state scheme contributions and social security benefits for members of certified schemes)].

Textual Amendments

F2S. 20(1)(f)(ii) substituted (16.12.1995 subject to Sch. 2 of the amending S.I.) by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22), arts. 1(3), 123, Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 18(1)

F4S. 20(2): para. (b) in definition substituted (13.4.1995) by S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12), art. 13(1), Sch. 1, para. 2(3)(b); S.R. 1994/450, art. 2, Sch. Pt. IV

F5Words in s. 20(3) substituted (7.2.1994) by 1993 c. 49, s. 184, Sch. 7 para. 30; S.R. 1994/17, art. 2