These Regulations amend laws made under Article 137 and Article 137A of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015. Those laws provided for welfare supplementary payment to be paid to individuals where certain entitlements to social security benefits had been terminated or reduced. The relevant common feature of those laws was that they provided for welfare supplementary payment to end on 31st March 2025.

Regulation 2 extends that end date to 31 March 2028.

Regulation 3 provides that certain conditions relating to the payment of welfare supplementary payments, which were due to expire on 31 March 2025, do not expire on that date.