Publications

This screening deals with the Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order (Northern Ireland) 2018

This screening deals with the Pension Schemes Act 2015 (Transitional Provisions and Appropriate Independent Advice) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 and The Pension Schemes Act 2015 (Transitional Provisions and Appropriate Independent Advice) (Amendment No.

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of amending existing Regulations to provide for a deferred debt arrangement to enable an employer in certain multi-employer occupational pension schemes to defer the requirement to pay an employer debt on ceasing to employ

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of providing for a new requirement for schemes to send members with ‘safeguarded-flexible’ benefits information about the guarantees those benefits offer, before they proceed to transfer, convert or flexibly ac

The core purpose of the Office of the Social Fund Commissioner (OSFC) is to deliver independent reviews of discretionary Social Fund decisions made in the Social Security Agency.

This screening deals with the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order (NI) 2018

This screening deals with the Social Supermarkets Pilot Programme

This screening deals with the Pension Protection Fund (Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 

This screening deals with the Introduction of the Payment Exception Service - replacement for the Simple Payment service

The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive. From 31 May 2016, the amount a household could receive in benefit income was limited to £26,000 per annum.

The Social Sector Size Criteria reports below detail the number of Welfare Supplementary Payments that stopped when customers moved properties and continued to under-occupy by at least the same number of bedrooms.

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has published the Automatic Enrolment Review report Automatic Enrolment Review 2017: Maintaining the Momentum (see below).