The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Transitionally protected period

10.—(1) Regulation 9 of the Transitional Provisions Regulations (transitionally protected period) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (6).

(2) In paragraph (1) after “particular claimant on” there shall be inserted “and including”.

(3) In paragraph (5) for “occupational pensions” there shall be substituted “pension payments”.

(4) In paragraph (6), for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs—

“(a) had attained pensionable age, and

(b) to whom unemployment benefit was payable in accordance with an award made by virtue of section 25(2)(b) or (c) of the Benefits Act,”.

(5) In paragraph (9)—

(a) after “adult dependant” there shall be inserted “for the relevant day”, and

(b) after the word “him” where it occurs for the second time, there shall be inserted—

“, or any dependency increase payable to him in accordance with section 80(2)(a) of the Benefits Act in respect of the relevant day in respect of a child who does not reside with him,”.

(6) After paragraph (9) there shall be added the following paragraphs—

“(10) In a case where unemployment benefit was payable in respect of the relevant day and the benefit included an increase for an adult dependant, continuing entitlement to the benefit and the increase shall be determined as if the provisions of regulation 14(1)(b) of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979(1) (provisions for adjusting benefit for part of week) continued to apply, notwithstanding that those provisions have ceased to have effect.

(11) In the transitionally protected period, the provisions of regulation 14(2) of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979(2) shall continue to apply in order to adjust the amount of unemployment benefit payable to a claimant for part of a week, notwithstanding that those provisions have ceased to have effect.”.

(1)

S.R. 1979 No. 242; regulation 14(1)(b) was substituted by regulation 14(7)(a) of S.R. 1995 No. 150 and amended by S.R. 1996 No. 289

(2)

Regulation 14(2) was amended by regulation 14(7)(b) of S.R. 1995 No. 150 and omitted by S.R. 1996 No. 289