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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Northern Ireland Statutory Rule: The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Disability-Related Premiums) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 254
40.—(1) Welfare supplementary payment must cease to be paid to a person if there is a change in the entitlement to personal independence payment of—
(a)the person, or
(b)(subject to paragraph (2)), where the person is a member of a couple, the other member of that couple.
(2) Paragraph (1)(b) does not apply if the other member of the couple was not entitled to personal independence payment on the date welfare supplementary payment commenced.
(3) Payment must cease from the day after the first payment of welfare supplementary payment following that change.
(4) In this regulation, a change in entitlement to personal independence payment includes—
(a)personal independence payment being awarded where it was not previously awarded, and
(b)a change in the award of personal independence payment.
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