Income Support (Special Payments) (Cold Weather Payments) (Jersey) Regulations 2008

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Income Support (Special Payments) (Cold Weather Payments) (Jersey) Regulations 2008

Regulation

1             Interpretation. 3

2             Special payments to meet heating costs. 3

2A                        4

2B                         4

3             Citation. 4

Table of Legislation History. 5

Table of Endnote References. 5

Income Support (Special Payments) (Cold Weather Payments) (Jersey) Regulations 2008

1        Interpretation[1]

In these Regulations –

“Law” means the Income Support (Jersey) Law 2007;

“long term incapacity allowance” means the benefit described in Article 16 of the Social Security (Jersey) Law 1974.

2        Special payments to meet heating costs

(1)     A special payment may be made to defray the expenses of heating a dwelling for any month from and including the months of October to April that is a cold weather month to any household occupying that dwelling where a member of the household throughout that month –

(a)     was under the age of 3 years;

(b)     was over the age of 65 years;

(c)     met the criteria for the personal care element of the impairment component under paragraph 6(1)(c) of Schedule 1 to the Income Support (Jersey) Regulations 2007;

(d)     was a child who met the criteria in Regulation 3(a) of the Income Support (Special Payments) (Child Personal Care) (Jersey) Regulations 2014; or

(e)     was awarded long term incapacity allowance for total incapacitation assessed at a degree of 100%.[2]

(2)     However, no payment may be made under this Regulation unless throughout that month the household concerned –

(a)     was in receipt of income support;

(b)     was entitled to a special component under Article 5(3)(a) of the Law or resided in the same dwelling as another household that was entitled to a special component under Article 5(3)(a) of the Law; and

(c)     occupied a dwelling other than a hostel or lodgings.[3]

(3)     The amount of a special payment under this Regulation shall be calculated according to the formula –

C x  

where –

C is calculated according to paragraph (4); and

T is the aggregate, up to a maximum of 540, of the amount by which the average daily temperature of each day in that month falls below 15.5 degrees Celsius.[4]

(4)     C is –

(a)     for each cold weather month from October 2024 to April 2025 inclusive, £193.37 increased or decreased by the same percentage as that of the rise or fall in the fuel element of the Jersey Retail Prices Index published by the Office of the Chief Statistician constituted under Article 5(1) of the Statistics and Census (Jersey) Law 2018 for the 12 months ending on 30th June 2024;

(b)     for each subsequent cold weather month, the figure produced by increasing or decreasing the figure for the previous April by the same percentage as that of the rise or fall in the fuel element of the Jersey Retail Prices Index published by the Office of the Chief Statistician constituted under Article 5(1) of the Statistics and Census (Jersey) Law 2018 for the 12 months ending in the previous June.[5]

(5)     If a dwelling is occupied by 2 or more households entitled to a special payment under this Regulation –

(a)     only one special payment is payable in respect of the dwelling; and

(b)     the special payment is divided equally between all the households entitled to it.

(6)     In this Regulation a month is a “cold weather month” if the aggregate of the amount by which the average daily temperature of each day in that month falls below 15.5 degrees Celsius exceeds 90.

(7)     The product of each formula in this Regulation shall be rounded up to the next whole penny.[6]

2A     [7]

2B     [8]

3        Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (Special Payments) (Cold Weather Payments) (Jersey) Regulations 2008.

Endnotes

Table of Legislation History

◦Projets available at statesassembly.gov.je

Table of Endnote References