Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007

Transitional allowances

8.  Regulations may—

(a) make provision for a person’s continuing entitlement to an employment and support allowance awarded by virtue of regulations under paragraph 7 (a “transitional allowance”) to be determined by reference to such provision as may be made by the regulations;

(b) make provision for the review of an award of a transitional allowance;

(c) make provision for the termination of an award of a transitional allowance;

(d) make provision for this Part, or any other statutory provision relating to social security, to have effect with prescribed modifications in relation to a person with a transitional allowance;

(e) make provision for the purpose of enabling a transitional allowance to be revised under Article 10 of the 1998 Order or superseded under Article 11 of that Order.

9.—(1) Regulations may prescribe circumstances in which a person who is entitled to a transitional allowance immediately before reaching pensionable age is to be treated as having satisfied the condition in paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 3 to the Contributions and Benefits Act (first contribution condition for entitlement to state pension).

(2) In this paragraph, “pensionable age” has the meaning given by the rules in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 22).