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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-47",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2017/9780338006882",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Change in the amount of welfare supplementary payment after person forms a couple",
  "text": "After regulation 22B insert—\n“Change in the amount of welfare supplementary payment after person forms a couple\n22C. (1) This regulation applies where a person (A) who is entitled to welfare supplementary payment under Part 2 or 4 forms a couple with another person (B).\n(2) The amount of welfare supplementary payment to which A is entitled will change if case 1 or case 2 applies, otherwise it will not change solely as a consequence of A forming a couple with B.\n(3) Case 1 applies if—\n(a) at the time when A forms a couple with B, B is entitled to welfare supplementary payment under Part 3 or 5, and\n(b) either A or B are or become entitled to an income-related benefit.\n(4) Case 2 applies if B is or becomes entitled to an income-related benefit.\n(5) Where case 1 or 2 applies, the amount of welfare supplementary payment to which A is entitled is reduced to the amount of welfare supplementary payment to which A would have been entitled under Part 3 if A had satisfied the conditions for payment on loss of carer premium on transition from disability living allowance to personal independence payment.\n(6) In this regulation “income-related benefit” means—\n(a) income-based jobseeker’s allowance under the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995,\n(b) income-related employment and support allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007,\n(c) income support under section 122 of the Contributions and Benefits Act,\n(d) state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002. ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2007 c. 2 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992 c. 7; section 122 was amended by Schedule 6 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2002 c. 14 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2017/9780338006882/regulation/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:40:36.539916+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}