Article 12 Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

(1)

The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 15(1) (social security benefits which are not prescribed for the purposes of income and capital as described in section 15(1)(e) of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002^f2), after sub-paragraph (qb) insert—

“(qc)
funeral expense assistance given in accordance with section 34 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.”.

(3)

In Part 1 of Schedule 5 (capital disregarded for the purpose of calculating income), after paragraph 20(2)(q) insert—

“(r)
funeral expense assistance given in accordance with section 34 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 2003 No. 28; relevant amending instruments are S.R. 2018 No. 192 and S.R. 2019 No. 23.
f2: 2002 c.14 (N.I.).