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The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Extension) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

S.R. 2025/59 · Made 19 March 2025 · Extends to Northern Ireland

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Welfare

Laid before the Assembly in draft

Made 19th March 2025

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1

The Department for Communitiesf1 makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 137 and 137A of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015f2.

In accordance with Article 137(5) and 137A(9) of that Order, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

See section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))

f2

S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1)

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Extension of welfare supplementary payments to 31 March 2028
  3. 3Removal of 31 March 2025 end date for certain conditions for payment
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencementI1

(1)

These regulations may be cited as the Welfare Supplementary Payment (Extension) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025.

(2)

They come into operation on the day after the day they are made.

2Extension of welfare supplementary payments to 31 March 2028I1

In each of the following provisions, for “on 31st March 2025” substitute “on 31st March 2028”—

(a)

in the Welfare Supplementary Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016f1, regulations 4(6) and 10(3)(b),

(b)

in the Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Carer Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016f2, regulations 6(3)(b), 10(3)(b), 14(3)(b), 18(3)(b) and 20(5)(b),

(c)

In the Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Disability Living Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016f3, regulations 6(3)(b) and 6(6)(b), 11(3)(b) and 19(4)(b),

(d)

in the Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Disability-Related Premiums) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016f4,regulations 8(3)(b), 17(3)(b), 24(3)(b), 30(3)(b), 36(3)(b) and 39(5)(b).

3Removal of 31 March 2025 end date for certain conditions for paymentI1

In the Welfare Supplementary Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022f1, omit regulation 1(3).

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 19th March 2025

(L.S.)

David Tarr

A senior officer of the Department for Communities

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend laws made under Article 137 and Article 137A of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015. Those laws provided for welfare supplementary payment to be paid to individuals where certain entitlements to social security benefits had been terminated or reduced. The relevant common feature of those laws was that they provided for welfare supplementary payment to end on 31st March 2025.

Regulation 2 extends that end date to 31 March 2028.

Regulation 3 provides that certain conditions relating to the payment of welfare supplementary payments, which were due to expire on 31 March 2025, do not expire on that date.