Article 21 Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations
The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006f1 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
In Schedule 6 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) after paragraph 64f2 insert—
“(65)Any bereavement support payment under section 29 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (bereavement support payment) except any such payment which is disregarded as capital under paragraph 9(1)(h) or 59 of Schedule 7.”.
In Schedule 7 (capital to be disregarded)—
in paragraph 9(1)f3 after paragraph (g) insert—
“(h)bereavement support payment under section 29 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015,”; and
after paragraph 58 insert—
“(59)Any bereavement support payment in respect of the rate set out in regulation 3(2) or (5) (rate of bereavement support payment) of the Bereavement Support Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017f4, but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment.”.
Annotations
Footnotes
- f1
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S.R. 2006 No. 405; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2009 No. 276 and S.R 2016 No. 236
- f2
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Paragraph 64 was added by regulation 3 of S.R. 2009 No. 276
- f3
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Paragraph 9(1)(g) was inserted by regulation 34(13) of S.R. 2016 No. 236
- f4