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Regulation 2 Income support, housing benefit and jobseeker’s allowance: capital disregardI1

Northern Ireland

There shall be added as—

(a)

paragraph 61 of Schedule 10 to the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987f1 (capital to be disregarded);

F1(b)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)

paragraph 54 of Schedule 7 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996f2 (capital to be disregarded);

the following paragraph—

  • “The amount of a payment, other than a war pension within the meaning in section 25 of the Social Security Act 1989f3, to compensate for the fact that the claimant, the claimant’s partner, the claimant’s deceased spouse or the claimant’s partner’s deceased spouse—

    1. (a)

      was a slave labourer or a forced labourer;

    2. (b)

      had suffered property loss or had suffered personal injury, or

    3. (c)

      was a parent of a child who had died,

    during the Second World War.”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 2(b) revoked (20.11.2006) by The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/407), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 6(2), Sch. 3, Sch. 4)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 2 in operation at 19.11.2001, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

S.R. 1987 No. 459; paragraph 60 was added by regulation 2(a) of S.R. 2001 No. 157

f2

S.R. 1996 No. 198; paragraph 53 was added by regulation 2(c) of S.R. 2001 No. 157

f3

1989 c. 24