Article 10 Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations

in the definition of “benefit”^f2 after “shared additional pension” insert “, bereavement support payment”;

for the definitions of “bereavement allowance” and “bereavement benefit”^f3 substitute—

• ““bereavement benefit” means—

  1. (i)

     a bereavement payment referred to in section 36 of the Contributions and Benefits Act as in operation immediately before it was repealed by paragraph 8 of Schedule 16 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015,

  2. (ii)

     a bereavement allowance referred to in section 39B of the Contributions and Benefits Act as in operation immediately before it was repealed by paragraph 13 of Schedule 16 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015, and

  3. (iii)

     widowed parent’s allowance;

• “bereavement support payment” means bereavement support payment under section 29 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015;”;

in the definition of “long term benefits”^f4 omit “bereavement allowance,”; and

in the definition of “working age benefit”^f5 omit paragraph (a).

for sub-paragraph (a)(iv)^f6 substitute—

“(iv)

widowed parent’s allowance;”;

in sub-paragraph (d)(ii)^f7 omit “or bereavement allowance”; and

omit sub-paragraph (da)^f8.

in paragraph (6A)(a)(i)^f9 for “a bereavement benefit” substitute “widowed parent’s allowance”; and

in paragraph (11)^f10 for “a bereavement benefit” substitute “a widowed parent’s allowance, a bereavement support payment”.

in paragraph (2A)^f12 omit “bereavement allowance,”;

in paragraph (3)(c)(i)^f13 omit “bereavement allowance”; and

in paragraph (4), for “bereavement allowance” substitute “bereavement support payment”.

for paragraph (3)(ga)^f14 substitute—

“(ga)

subject to paragraph (3B), widowed parent’s allowance;

(gb)

subject to paragraph (3BA), bereavement support payment;”;

omit paragraph (3A)^f15;

in paragraph (3B)^f16 for “bereavement benefit”, in the first place it appears, substitute “widowed parent’s allowance”; and

after paragraph (3B) insert—

“(3BA)

The prescribed time for claiming bereavement support payment in respect of—

(a)

the rate set out in regulation 3(2) or (5) of the Bereavement Support Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (rate of bereavement support payment); and

(b)

the date on which the claimant’s spouse or civil partner died,

is 12 months beginning with that date of death.”.

in the heading omit “bereavement allowance,”;

in paragraph (1) omit “bereavement allowance or”; and

in paragraph (5) omit sub-paragraph (a).

paragraph 2(c);

paragraph 2ZA^f22; and

paragraph 4, in the definition of “relevant social security benefit”.