Income Support
(General Provisions) (Amendment No. 18) (Jersey)
Order 2015
Made 9th October 2015
Coming into force 1st
January 2016
THE MINISTER FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, in pursuance of Articles 7 and 18
of the Income Support (Jersey) Law 2007[1], orders as follows –
1 Schedule 2 to the Income Support
(General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2008 amended
In Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General Provisions)
(Jersey) Order 2008[2] –
(a) in
paragraph 5(a) the words “who are not entitled to a basic component
under Article 5(2)(b) of the Law” shall be deleted;
(b) paragraphs 5(c),
(e) and (h) shall be deleted;
(c) in paragraph 5(d),
for the word “10%” there shall be substituted the word
“23%”;
(d) for
paragraphs 5(f) and (g) there shall be substituted the following
sub-paragraphs –
(i) a household with a person who has
attained pensionable age is in receipt of income support before 1st January 2016,
or is the subject of an application for income support made before 1st January 2016
which is approved after that date, and
(ii) after 1st January 2016 there
is no period exceeding 28 days during which that household is not entitled
to receive income support,
100% of the first £55.23
of any income derived from the pension or annuity of one such person in the
household and 100% of the first £35.77 of any income derived from the
pension or annuity of each other person in the household who has attained
pensionable age;
(g) in a case after 1st January 2016, where
sub-paragraph (f) does not apply –
(i) 23% of the first £240.13 of any
income derived from the pension or annuity of one person in the household who
has attained pensionable age, and
(ii) 23% of the first £155.52 of any
income derived from the pension or annuity of each other person in the
household who has attained pensionable age;”;
(e) for
paragraph 5(ga) there shall be substituted the following
sub-paragraph –
(ga) 23% of any income in excess of £240.13 derived
from the pension or annuity of a person in the household who has attained
pensionable age and 23% of any income in excess of £155.52 derived from
the pension or annuity of each other person in the household who has attained
pensionable age;”.
2 Citation
and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Income Support (General Provisions)
(Amendment No. 18) (Jersey) Order 2015 and shall come into force on
1st January 2016.
deputy s.j. pinel of st. clement
Minister for Social Security