{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payment-universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payment-universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "nidsr/2025/9780338024367",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Universal Credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payment-universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Disability-related premiums",
  "text": "(1) The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Disability-Related Premiums) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 are amended as follows.\n(2) After regulation 3 (welfare supplementary payment) insert—\n“Welfare supplementary payment and universal credit\n3A. (1) If a person who is entitled to welfare supplementary payment under regulation 3 is or becomes entitled to universal credit, the person continues to be entitled to welfare supplementary payment.\n(2) Where the person becomes entitled to universal credit as a member of a couple who are entitled to the award as joint claimants, the couple are entitled to the welfare supplementary payment under paragraph (1); and references to a person’s entitlement to welfare supplementary payment are to be construed accordingly.\n(3) If the person ceases to be entitled to universal credit, and is not receiving state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002, welfare supplementary payment under these Regulations must cease to be paid to that person from the date on which the entitlement to universal credit ceases.”.\n(3) In each of regulation 8(1), 17(1), 24(1), 30(1) and 36(1) (period of payment), after “in arrears” insert “, unless in any case or class of case in which a person is entitled to universal credit the Department arranges otherwise”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2016 No. 254; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2017 No. 28, S.R. 2022 No. 25 and S.R. 2025 No XX"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2002 c. 14 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2025/9780338024367/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:40:01.839186+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."
}