Article 32 Amendment of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

(1)

The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 94 (meaning of “person in hardship”)—

(a)

in paragraphs (3)(a), (b), (c)(i) and (ii), after “attendance allowance”, insert “, pension age disability payment”;

(b)

in paragraph (7), after the definition of “disability living allowance”, insert—

““pension age disability payment” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024;”.

Annotations

f1: S.R. 2016 No. 219; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2021/786 and 2022/177.