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5.—(1) Where a person is entitled to a contributory benefit, the amount of welfare supplementary payment payable is given by the formula—
where —
WSP is welfare supplementary payment,
CA is the carer's allowance payable to the person on the date entitlement to the allowance is lost, and
CB is the amount of contributory benefit payable to the person.
(2) Where the contributory benefit is greater than the carer's allowance, then no welfare supplementary payment is payable.
(3) Where a person is not entitled to contributory benefit, the amount of welfare supplementary payment payable is given by the formula—
where —
WSP is welfare supplementary payment, and
CA is the carer's allowance payable to the person on the date entitlement to the allowance is lost.
(4) In this regulation contributory benefit means—
(a)contributory benefit within the meaning of Part 2 of the Contributions and Benefits Act,
(b)employment and support allowance under section 1(2)(a) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 M1, or
(c)a contribution-based jobseeker's allowance within the meaning of Article 3 of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 M2.
Marginal Citations
M2S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15); Article 3 was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 to S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11), paragraph 131 of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) and paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2 (N.I.))