Regulation 5 Amendment of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations

In regulation 3 of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001^f1 after paragraph (j) add the following paragraph—

“(k)

a reduction under regulation 73D of the Housing Benefit Regulations of the amount of housing benefit to which a person is entitled if that reduction—

(i)

relates to the housing benefit of a person who is entitled to a welfare supplementary payment under Part 2 of the Welfare Supplementary Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016; and

(ii)

is no more than the amount specified in regulation 4(4) of those Regulations.”.