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2017-03-242017-03-22STATE PENSION CREDIT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2002WELFARE REFORM ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2007SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ACT 1992TSO (The Stationery Office), St Crispins, Duke Street, Norwich, NR3 1PD, 01603 622211, customer.services@tso.co.uk27435257931

Department for Communities

LEGISLATION PURSUANT TO WHICH TO NOTICE IS PLACED: SECTIONS 132(4)(B) AND 171(1) AND (3) OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ACT 1992( ), ARTICLE 14(4)(B) OF THE JOBSEEKERS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1995( ) AND NOW VESTED IN IT( ), SECTIONS 15(1)(J) AND (6)(B) AND 19(1) AND (3) OF THE STATE PENSION CREDIT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2002( ) AND SECTION 17(3)(B) OF THE WELFARE REFORM ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2007

THE SOCIAL SECURITY (INCOME-RELATED BENEFITS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2017

This Rule amends the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987, the State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003, the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 by disregarding income other than earnings in those Regulations where that income is a payment made by a government to victims of National Socialist persecution so that the same disregard is applied in all cases.