Income Support
(Special Payments) (Christmas Bonus) (Jersey) Regulations 2016
1 Interpretation
(1) In these
Regulations –
“2007 Regulations” means the Income Support (Jersey)
Regulations 2007;
“2008 Order” means the Income Support (General Provisions) (Jersey)
Order 2008.
(2) Where a word or
expression used in these Regulations also occurs in
the 2007 Regulations or the 2008 Order, that word or
expression shall have (unless otherwise indicated) the same meaning for the
purposes of these Regulations as it is given by the 2007 Regulations
or the 2008 Order, as the case may be.
2 Entitlement
to special payment of Christmas bonus
(1) A special payment of a
Christmas bonus may be made to a person who is a member of a household in
receipt of income support throughout the whole month of November in any year
(beginning with and including, for the avoidance of doubt, November 2016)
and who –
(a) on
the first day of that month is of pensionable age or above; or
(b) throughout
the whole of that month, receives any benefit under Article 4 of the Long-Term Care (Jersey) Law 2012; or
(c) is an
adult member of a household which, throughout the whole of that month, meets
the criteria for entitlement to either –
(i) the personal care
element of the impairment component of income support, under
paragraph 6(1)(b) or (c) of Schedule 1 to
the 2007 Regulations, in respect of an adult member of the household,
or
(ii) the
carer’s component of income support, under paragraph 11 of that
Schedule; or
(d) throughout
the whole of that month is an adult receiving, on behalf of a household of
which he or she is a member and in respect of a child who is a member of the
same household, a special payment for child personal care under
Regulation 2 or 3 of the Income Support (Special
Payments) (Child Personal Care) (Jersey) Regulations 2014.
(3) A special payment of a
Christmas bonus may also be made to a person who, throughout the whole month of
November in any year (beginning with and including, for the avoidance of doubt,
November 2016) –
(a) meets
the requirements for a special payment to defray the expenses of long-term care
being provided to that person, under Regulation 2 of the Income Support (Special Payments) (Long-Term
Care) (Jersey) Regulations 2014; or
(b) receives –
(i) a grant under Article 11,
or
(ii) a
loan under Article 12,
of the Long-Term Care (Benefits) (Jersey)
Order 2014, to meet the weekly costs referred to in Article 9(c) of that
Order.
(4) No more than one
special payment of a Christmas bonus may be made in respect of any one person
in any one year, but –
(a) where
more than one person in a household is entitled to such payment by virtue of
any of the provisions of paragraph (1)(a) to (c); and
(b) where
more than one child in a household is a child in respect of whom a special
payment such as described in paragraph (1)(d) is received by the
household,
more than one special payment of a Christmas bonus may be made in a
year to that household.
3 Amount
and manner of payment of Christmas bonus
(1) The amount of the
Christmas bonus for 2023 and subsequent years is £114.19.[1]
(2) Payment of the
Christmas bonus –
(a) must
be made in the month of December in each year in respect of which the Christmas
bonus is payable;
(b) where
reasonably practicable, must be made before Christmas Day in each such year;
and
(c) in
any event, must be made before the end of the next July following the year in
respect of which the Christmas bonus is payable.
4 Christmas
bonus not treated as benefit or income
A payment, and the entitlement to receive payment, of the Christmas
bonus are to be disregarded for all purposes of income tax and for the purposes
of any other enactment under which regard is to be had to a person’s
means.
5 Citation
These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (Special
Payments) (Christmas Bonus) (Jersey) Regulations 2016.