Regulation 2 Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987I1I2

The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987^f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (11).

In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) –

In regulation 3 (claims not required for entitlement to benefit in certain cases) after paragraph (h)^f4 there shall be added the following paragraph –

“(i)

in the case of a shared additional pension where the beneficiary is in receipt of a retirement pension of any category.”.

In regulation 4 (making a claim for benefit) –

In regulation 13(3)^f7 (advance claims and awards) after “increase of retirement pension,” there shall be inserted “a shared additional pension,”.

In regulation 15(1) (advance notice of retirement and claim for and award of pension) after “increase in any such pension,” there shall be inserted “or a shared additional pension,”.

For regulation 15B^f8 (advance claim for pension following deferment) there shall be substituted –

“Advance claim for pension following deferment

15B.

Where a person’s entitlement to a Category A or Category B retirement pension or a shared additional pension is deferred in accordance with section 55(3) (pension increase or lump sum where entitlement to retirement pension is deferred) or section 55C(3) (pension increase or lump sum where entitlement to shared additional pension is deferred) of the Contributions and Benefits Act^f9 (as the case may be) a claim for –

(a)

a Category A or Category B retirement pension;

(b)

any increase in that pension; and

(c)

a shared additional pension,

may be made at any time not more than 4 months before the date on which the period of deferment, within the meaning of section 55(3) or section 55C(3) (as the case may be), ends.”.

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In Schedule 1, in the Table in Part I^f10 (benefit claimed and other benefit which may be treated as if claimed in addition or in the alternative) where “A retirement pension of any category” appears in column (1) (benefit claimed), in the corresponding paragraph in column (2) (alternative benefit), after “any other category” there shall be inserted “, a shared additional pension”.

In Schedule 4 (prescribed times for claiming benefit), after paragraph 14^f11 there shall be added the following paragraph –

“

15. Shared additional pension.

As regards any day on which, apart from satisfying the condition of making a claim, the claimant is entitled to the pension, that day and the period of 12 months immediately following it.

”.

In Schedule 6 (days for payment of long term benefits) after paragraph 5 there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

“Shared additional pension

5A.

Shared additional pension shall be payable on Mondays, except that –

(a)

where a retirement pension is payable to the claimant, it shall be payable on the same day as the retirement pension; or

(b)

the Department may, notwithstanding the provisions of sub-paragraph (a), arrange for a shared additional pension to be payable on such other day of the week as it may, in the circumstances of any particular case, determine.”.