The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976

Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975

17.—(1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975(1), as amended(2), shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 15 (time and manner of payment of certain pensions and allowances)—

(a) at the end of paragraph (1) the following sub-paragraph shall be added :

“(h) invalid care allowance”;

(b) after paragraph (8) there shall be added the following paragraph :

“(8A) Weekly sums on account of an invalid care allowance shall be payable on Mondays, so however that where a person is entitled to that allowance in respect of a severely disabled person by virtue of regulation 3 of the social Security (Invalid Care Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976 the invalid care allowance shall be payable on Wednesdays.”.

(3) In regulation 17 (time and manner of payment of age addition) in paragraph (4) for "paragraphs (6), (7), (10), (11) and (13) of regulation 15'' there shall be substituted “paragraphs (6), (7), (8A), (10), (11) and (13) of regulation 15”.

(4) In Schedule 1 (prescribed times for claiming benefit)—

(a) after paragraph 1 in columns (1), (2) and (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph in the respective columns :

“1A.

Invalid care allowance

The period of 3 months from the first day in respect of which the claim is made

Benefit in respect of any period more than 3 months before the date on which the claim is made”;

(b) in paragraph 3 of column (1), for “or non-contributory invalidity pension” there shall be substituted “, non-contributory invalidity pension or an invalid care allowance”.

(5) In Schedule 3 (benefit for which the claim may be treated in the alternative)—

(a) in paragraph 3 of column (2), for “Sickness benefit, invalidity benefit, injury benefit, unemployability supplement or non-contributory invalidity pension” there shall be substituted “Sickness benefit, invalidity benefit, injury benefit, unemployability supplement, non-contributory invalidity pension or invalid care allowance”;

(b) in paragraph 5 of column (2), or “An increase of sickness benefit, invalidity pension or of non-contributory invalidity pension” there shall be substituted “An increase of sickness benefit, invalidity pension, non-contributory invalidity pension or of invalid care allowance”.

(1)

S.R. 1975 No. 104.

(2)

The relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1975 No. 202.