The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Couples: termination of welfare supplementary payment on death of carer

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43.  After regulation 21A insert—

Couples: termination of welfare supplementary payment on death of carer

21B.(1) This regulation applies where—

(a)A and B are a couple,

(b)B is in receipt of welfare supplementary payment by virtue of A providing care for the caree, and

(c)A dies.

(2) Welfare supplementary payment must cease to be paid at the expiry of 8 weeks beginning with the Sunday following the death (or beginning with the date of the death if the death occurred on a Sunday).

(3) The period of payment must not exceed the time limit set out in—

(a)regulation 6(3),

(b)regulation 10(3),

(c)regulation 14(3), or

(d)regulation 18(3)..