Regulation 3 Amendments to the Welfare Supplementary Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

omit paragraph (2);

in paragraph (6), omit the words “commences on the first occasion on which the amount of housing benefit to which the person is entitled is reduced in accordance with regulation 73D of the Housing Benefit Regulations and”;

omit paragraph (10).

for paragraph (2) substitute-

“(2)

Welfare supplementary payment is equal to the amount by which a person’s award of housing benefit is reduced in accordance with regulation 73D of the Housing Benefit Regulations.”;

omit paragraph (3); and

after paragraph (2) add -

“(2A)

At times after the revocation of paragraph (3), paragraph (2) has effect in relation to a person even if there is a time before revocation when paragraph (3) had effect to reduce an entitlement under paragraph (2) in the person’s case.”.

after paragraph (2) insert-

“(2A)

The Department may supply information which relates to the payment and administration of welfare supplementary payments and is held by the Department-

(a)

to a registered housing association, for use by the association in connection with the management of tenants’ accounts; or

(b)

to a body which appears to the Department to represent housing associations in Northern Ireland, for use by those associations in that connection.”; and

at the end of paragraph (3)(b) insert “or (2A)”.