The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Amendment of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations

5.  For regulation 4 of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001(1) there shall be substituted the following regulation –

“Limit on the amount of the discretionary housing payment that may be made

4.   The amount of a discretionary housing payment (calculated as a weekly sum) shall not exceed, in a case to which regulation 2(1) refers, an amount equal to the amount of the aggregate of the payments specified in regulation 10(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations(2) (rent) less the aggregate of the amounts referred to in paragraph (3)(b)(3) of that regulation and any deductions made in accordance with regulation 62 (housing benefit tapers) or regulation 63(4) (non-dependant deductions) calculated on a weekly basis in accordance with regulation 69(5) (calculation of weekly amounts) and regulation 70 (rent and rate-free periods) of those Regulations.”.

(1)

S.R. 2001 No. 216

(2)

Regulation 10(1)(h) was amended by regulation 5 of S.R. 1988 No. 424

(3)

Regulation 10(3) was substituted by regulation 3(a) of S.R. 2001 No. 79

(4)

Regulation 63 was amended by S.R. 1989 No. 125, S.R. 1990 Nos. 136 and 345, S.R. 1992 Nos. 85, 404 and 549, S.R. 1993 Nos. 145, 195 and 233, S.R. 1996 No. 334, S.R. 1997 No. 3, S.R. 1998 No. 81 and S.R. 2002 No. 99

(5)

Regulation 69(9) was added by regulation 4 of S.R. 1996 No. 115