Social Welfare Act 2011

Disqualification from certain payments while participating in Community Employment.

12.— (1) The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following section after section 247A (inserted by section 27 of the Act of 2010):

“Disqualification from certain payments while participating in Community Employment.

247B.— (1) A person shall be disqualified from receiving—

(a) any benefit specified in section 39(1), other than—

(i) disablement benefit payable in accordance with section 75,

(ii) death benefit by way of a grant in respect of funeral expenses,

(iii) bereavement grant, and

(iv) widowed or surviving civil partner grant,

(b) an increase, payable under section 77, in disablement pension on account of incapacity,

(c) any assistance specified in section 139(1), other than—

(i) supplementary welfare allowance in so far as it relates to the payment of a supplement towards the amount of rent payable by a person in respect of his or her residence in accordance with section 198,

(ii) supplementary welfare allowance in so far as it relates to the payment of that allowance in accordance with section 200, 201, 202 or 206, and

(iii) a widowed or surviving civil partner grant,

and

(d) infectious diseases maintenance allowance,

for any week or part of a week during which he or she is employed under a scheme provided by the Minister and known as Community Employment.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a person receiving any benefit, increase, assistance or allowance specified in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (1) while he or she is employed under a Community Employment scheme where the period of employment under that Community Employment scheme commenced before 16 January 2012.”.

(2) This section comes into operation on 16 January 2012.