{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-supplementary-payment-universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2025/60",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Universal Credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-supplementary-payment-universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make further provision for welfare supplementary payments. These payments are designed to mitigate the impact of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1)) and the Welfare Reform and Work (Northern Ireland) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/999 (N.I. 1)) referred to in “A Fresh Start: the Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan”. These Regulations make provision to take account of the introduction of universal credit.\nPart 1 is technical and provides for citation and commencement.\nPart 2 amends some of the existing Regulations to make provision for the case of a person who becomes entitled to universal credit at a time when the person is already receiving a welfare supplementary payment which is linked to another benefit.\nChapter 1 amends the provisions on the application of the benefit cap, contributory employment and support allowance, carer’s allowance, carer premium and disability-related premium to ensure that the person will continue to receive the welfare supplementary payment after becoming entitled to universal credit. Chapter 1 also makes provision for the recovery of overpayments of welfare supplementary payment made in consequence of the application of the social sector size criteria.\nChapter 2 enables the Department to recover overpayments of welfare supplementary payment where a person is entitled to universal credit. The Department will be able to recover overpayments by deductions from future welfare supplementary payments or from benefits, but it will not be able to do so from the person’s earnings.\nPart 3 makes provision for there to be new welfare supplementary payments where a person is entitled to universal credit but is subsequently affected by a change in that entitlement.\nChapter 2 applies where the person is affected by the application of the benefit cap.\nChapter 3 applies where the person is affected by the loss of the carer element of universal credit.\nChapter 4 applies where the person is affected by time-limiting of contributory employment and support allowance.\nChapter 5 makes general provision in relation to the new welfare supplementary payments to ensure a consistent approach with that taken on the existing payments. Regulation 43, for example, applies the existing procedures for the recovery of overpayments to the new payments.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/60/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:26:23.045593+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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