Income Support
(General Provisions) (Amendment No. 19)
(Jersey) Order 2015
Made 18th December 2015
Coming into force in
accordance with Article 3
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) for paragraph 5(f) to (ga)
there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph –
“(f) the
following pension income –
(i) in the case of one existing pensioner in the household,
whichever is the greater of –
(A) 100%
of the first £55.23 of his or her pension income, or
(B) 23%
of his or her pension income,
(ii) in the case
of any other existing pensioner in the household, whichever is the greater of –
(A) 100%
of the first £35.77 of his or her pension income, or
(B) 23%
of his or her pension income,
(iii) in the case of any
new pensioner in the household, 23% of his or her pension income;”;
(b) in paragraph 6 –
(i) after the definition “earnings” there shall be
inserted the following definition –
“
‘existing pensioner’ means a person
who has attained pensionable age before 1st January 2016 and who –
(a) was in receipt of
income support before that date; or
(b) was the subject of an application for income
support made before that date and approved on or after that date;”,
(ii) after the definition “income” there shall be
inserted the following definitions –
“
‘new pensioner’ means a person who
has attained pensionable age and is not an existing pensioner;
‘pension
income’ means income derived from a pension or annuity;”.
2 Income
Support (General Provisions) (Amendment No. 18) (Jersey) Order 2015
amended
Article 1(d) and (e) of the Income Support (General Provisions)
(Amendment No. 18) (Jersey) Order 2015[3] shall be revoked.
3 Citation
and commencement
(1) This
Order may be cited as the Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment No. 19)
(Jersey) Order 2015.
(2) Article 1
shall come into force on 1st January 2016.
(3) The
remainder of this Order shall come into force on the day after the day it is
made.
DEPUTY S.J. PINEL OF
ST. CLEMENT
Minister for Social Security