The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Disability Living Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 INTRODUCTION

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

    3. 3.Welfare supplementary payment

  3. PART 2 WELFARE SUPPLEMENTARY PAYMENT PENDING APPEAL AGAINST PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENT REFUSAL

    1. 4.Eligibility

    2. 5.Amount

    3. 6.Period of payment

    4. 6A.Periods of payment: times not included

    5. 7.Effect of changes in personal independence payment following revision or supersession of previous decision

  4. PART 3 WELFARE SUPPLEMENTARY PAYMENT WHERE PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENT IS AWARDED AT LOWER RATE THAN DISABILITY LIVING ALLOWANCE

    1. 8.Eligibility

    2. 9.Eligibility (following termination of welfare supplementary payment under Part 2)

    3. 10.Amount

    4. 11.Period of payment

    5. 12.Effect of changes in personal independence payment following revision, appeal or supersession of previous decision

  5. PART 4 WELFARE SUPPLEMENTARY PAYMENT WHERE PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENT REFUSED (CONFLICT RELATED CASES)

    1. 13.Eligibility

    2. 14.Eligibility (following termination of welfare supplementary payment under Part 2)

    3. 15.Meaning of conflict related injury condition

    4. 16.Procedure for establishing eligibility

    5. 17.Evidence for establishing conflict related injury condition

    6. 18.Amount

    7. 19.Period of payment

    8. 20.Effect of changes in personal independence payment following revision, appeal or supersession of previous decision

  6. PART 5 MISCELLANEOUS

    1. 21.Review

    2. 21A.Persons to whom welfare supplementary payments may be made

    3. 22.Disregards

    4. 23.Residency

    5. 24.Temporary absence from Northern Ireland

    6. 25.Temporary absence from Northern Ireland to receive medical treatment

    7. 26.Care home residents

    8. 27.Hospital in-patients

    9. 28.Prisoners

    10. 29.Exceptions: care homes, hospitals and prisons

    11. 30.Change of circumstances: residency, care home, hospital, prison

  7. Signature

  8. Explanatory Note