The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Disability-Related Premiums) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 Introduction

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

   3. 3. Welfare supplementary payment

3. PART 2 Welfare Supplementary Payment for loss of Disability-Related Premium on transition from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment (Income Support claimants)

   1. 4. Eligibility

   2. 5. Eligibility (couples: disability premium and enhanced disability premium)

   3. 6. Eligibility (couples: severe disability premium)

   4. 7. Amount

   5. 8. Period of payment

   6. 9. Effect of loss of income support

   7. 10. Termination of payment on award of disability-related premium

4. PART 3 Welfare Supplementary Payment for loss of Disability-Related Premium on transition from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment (Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants)

   1. 11. Eligibility

   2. 12. Eligibility (couples: disability premium and enhanced disability premium)

   3. 13. Eligibility (couples: severe disability premium)

   4. 14. Eligibility (joint-claim couples: disability premium and enhanced disability premium)

   5. 15. Eligibility (joint-claim couples: severe disability premium)

   6. 16. Amount

   7. 17. Period of payment

   8. 18. Effect of loss of jobseeker’s allowance

   9. 19. Termination of payment on award of disability-related premium

5. PART 4 Welfare Supplementary Payment for loss of Disability-Related Premium on transition from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment (Employment and Support Allowance claimants)

   1. 20. Eligibility

   2. 21. Eligibility (couples: enhanced disability premium)

   3. 22. Eligibility (couples: severe disability premium)

   4. 23. Amount

   5. 24. Period of payment

   6. 25. Effect of loss of employment and support allowance

   7. 26. Termination of payment on award of disability-related premium

6. PART 5 Welfare Supplementary Payment for loss of Disability-Related Element on transition from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment (Working Tax Credit claimants)

   1. 27. Eligibility

   2. 28. Eligibility (joint claims: couples)

   3. 29. Amount

   4. 30. Period of payment

   5. 31. Effect of loss of working tax credit

   6. 32. Termination of payment on award of disability-related element

7. PART 6 Welfare Supplementary Payment for loss of severe disability component on transition from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment (State Pension Credit claimants)

   1. 33. Eligibility

   2. 34. Eligibility (couples)

   3. 35. Amount

   4. 36. Period of payment

   5. 37. Effect of loss of state pension credit

   6. 38. Termination of payment on award of severe disability component

8. PART 7 Miscellaneous

   1. 39. Termination of welfare supplementary payment on determination of appeal against refusal of personal independence payment

   2. 40. Termination of welfare supplementary payment on change in personal independence payment

   3. 41. Temporary cessation of the underlying benefit

   4. 42. Temporary cessation of an underlying benefit with equivalent disability-related premium

   5. 43. Termination of welfare supplementary payment where couple becomes entitled to disability-related premium

   6. 44. Persons forming a couple where there are equivalent disability-related premiums

   7. 45. Review

   8. 46. Disregards

   9. 47. Residency

   10. 48. Temporary absence from Northern Ireland

   11. 49. Temporary absence from Northern Ireland to receive medical treatment

9. Signature

10. Explanatory Note