Publications

The Covid-19 Heating Payment will provide individuals who are in receipt of specified benefits with financial assistance in recognition of the additional costs arising as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

These Regulations amend the Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Coronavirus) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020 No.

This report gives detailed information on progress on the standard of decision making within the Child Maintenance Service.

The Partnership Panel was established to provide a structured relationship between central and local government, to promote collaboration and synergies between Ministers and councillors; and to provide opportunities for joint policy formation to enhance the co-ordination and d

The amending Regulations provide that a person who is isolating themselves, as far as possible, from other people, in line with guidance provided by the Regional Agency for Public Health and Social Well-being relating to coronavirus, is deemed to be incapable of work, and ther

The Scheme of Emergency Financial Assistance (SEFA) is designed to aid individual householders who have suffered severe inconvenience as a result of internal flooding to their properties.

This intervention falls out of the COVID-19 Emergency Response Programme which in its entirety is focused on addressing objective need arising from the impacts of the public health emergency and aligns with actions being taken forward by Economy, Health and Education in partic

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) which operates across Britain and NI was established to provide a safety net for members of defined benefit schemes.  It provides compensation for members of eligible occupational pension schemes, where the sponsoring employer is insolven

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Coronavirus) (Prisoners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020 No. 63), extending their expiry date by 6 months in response to the continuing outbreak of coronavirus in Northern Ireland.

The Universal Credit (Earned Income) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 amend the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 to give effect to the Court of Appeal judgment in Great Britain which found that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions act

The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 states that the Department for Communities (DfC) must lay before the Northern Ireland Assembly, two Independent Reviews on the operation of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Assessments.  The first Independent Review was

The fact sheet provides a quarterly overview of the performance and composition of the Fund for the three months ending 30 September 2020.

Guidance on the implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention in Northern Ireland.

This is the twentieth report of the Historic Buildings Council for Northern Ireland.

The CMP is a work-focused rehabilitation programme aimed at improving the employability of Department for Communities (DfC) customers on incapacity-related benefits, predominately those in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Jobseekers Allowance (JSA), Income Su

This Statutory Rule is a technical Order giving effect to a statutory requirement to specify the percentage that will be used to revalue the “protected payment” element of a new State pension for persons who reach State Pension age on or after 13 April 2021

This Statutory Rule allows for the revaluation of new State Pension scheme pension credits and debits that arise when a Pension Sharing Order is made by the courts where divorce proceedings commence from 6 April 2016.