Part IV Increases for dependants

Miscellaneous

93 Dependency increases on termination of employment after period of entitlement to disability working allowance.

Where—

F1(a)

a person becomes entitled—

(i)

to the higher rate of short-term incapacity benefit, or to long-term incapacity benefit, by virtue of section 30C(5) or (6) or section 42 above;. . .

F2(ii)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)

when he was last entitled to that F3benefit. . ., it was increased in respect of a dependant by virtue of—

(i)

regulation 8(6) of the M1Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1977;

(ii)

regulation 3 of the M2Social Security Benefit (Dependency) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984;

(iii)

regulation 2 of the M3Social Security (Savings for Existing Beneficiaries) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984; or

(iv)

regulation 4 of the M4Social Security Benefit (Dependency and Computation of Earnings) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989,

for the purpose of determining whether his F3benefit. . . should be increased by virtue of that regulation for any period beginning with the day on which he again becomes entitled to his F3benefit. . ., the increase in respect of that dependant shall be treated as having been payable to him on each day between the last day on which his F3benefit. . . was previously payable and the day on which he again becomes entitled to it.