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Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007

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Part 4: Miscellaneous

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Section 54: Power to stop payment of allowances to care home residents

Section 54(1) replaces subsection (2) of section 67 of the Contributions and Benefits Act with new subsections (2) to (6).

New subsection (2) confers a power to make regulations providing for circumstances in which payment of attendance allowance may be withdrawn from those resident in a care home where any of the costs of any qualifying services provided in that home are borne out of public or local funds under a specified enactment.

New subsections (3) to (6) define what is meant by a “care home”, “qualifying services” and an “enactment”.

Subsection (2) replaces subsection (8) of section 72 of the Contributions and Benefits Act with new subsections (8) to (12).

New subsections (8) to (12) confer power to provide by regulations for circumstances in which payment of the care component of disability living allowance may be withdrawn from those resident in a care home.

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