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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Supplementary Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022.
(2) They come into operation on the day after the day they are made.
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No provision of these Regulations is to be regarded as having effect at any time before it came into operation.
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(1) The Welfare Supplementary Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).
(2) In regulation 4 (benefit cap) –
(a) omit paragraph (2);
(b) in paragraph (6), omit the words “commences on the first occasion on which the amount of housing benefit to which the person is entitled is reduced in accordance with regulation 73D of the Housing Benefit Regulations and”;
(c) omit paragraph (10).
(3) In regulation 4A (amount of welfare supplementary payment payable in respect of benefit cap)-
(a) for paragraph (2) substitute-“
(2) Welfare supplementary payment is equal to the amount by which a person’s award of housing benefit is reduced in accordance with regulation 73D of the Housing Benefit Regulations.”;
(b) omit paragraph (3); and
(c) after paragraph (2) add -“
(2A) At times after the revocation of paragraph (3), paragraph (2) has effect in relation to a person even if there is a time before revocation when paragraph (3) had effect to reduce an entitlement under paragraph (2) in the person’s case.”.
(4) In regulation 4D (termination of welfare supplementary payment if person ceases to be entitled to housing benefit), omit paragraph (3).
(5) In regulation 4H (information sharing)-
(a) after paragraph (2) insert-“
(2A) The Department may supply information which relates to the payment and administration of welfare supplementary payments and is held by the Department-
(a) to a registered housing association, for use by the association in connection with the management of tenants’ accounts; or
(b) to a body which appears to the Department to represent housing associations in Northern Ireland, for use by those associations in that connection.”; and
(b) at the end of paragraph (3)(b) insert “or (2A)”.
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(1) The Housing Benefit (Welfare Supplementary Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 2 -
(a) omit paragraphs (2) to (4); and
(b) before paragraph (5) insert-“
(4A) At times after the revocation of paragraph (2), paragraph (1) has effect in relation to a person even if there is a time before the revocation when paragraph (2) had effect to end an entitlement under paragraph (1) in the person’s case.”.
(3) In regulation 7, omit paragraph (2).
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 9th February 2022
(L.S.)Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Communities
