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5. In regulation 64D of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (the amount of a hardship payment) (1) for paragraph (1) substitute—
“(1) A hardship payment is either—
(a)80% of the prescribed amount for a single claimant as set out in paragraph (1)(a) of Part 1 of Schedule 4(2) where—
(i)the claimant has an award of employment and support allowance which does not include entitlement to a work-related activity component under section 4(2)(b) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 as in operation immediately before 3rd April 2017, and
(ii)the claimant or any other member of their family is either pregnant or seriously ill; or
(b)60% of the prescribed amount for a single claimant as set out in paragraph (1)(a) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 in any other case.”.
Regulation 64D is inserted by regulation 6 of S.R. 2016 No. 240.
The figures in paragraph 1(a) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 were substituted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 14 to the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015 No. 124).
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