NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR REGULATION 14/18

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 14/18

Income and Employment Support Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Income and Employment Support Act
(O.C. 2018-032)

(Filed February 28, 2018)

Under the authority of section 52 of the Income and Employment Support Act, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council makes the following regulations.

Dated at St. John's, February 23, 2018.

Ann Marie Hann
Clerk of the Executive Council

REGULATIONS

Analysis

NLR 144/04
as amended

1. Paragraph 2(c) of the Income and Employment Support Regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

(c) "child benefit adjustment" means an adjustment to income support as determined by an officer when applicants or recipients do not receive the maximum Canada Child Benefit or the Newfoundland and Labrador Child Benefit;

2. Subparagraph 8(a)(viii) of the regulations is repealed.

3. Paragraph 19(1)(m) of the regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

(m) for

(i) a dependent student, or

(ii) a single person between the ages of 18 and 21 who is maintaining a household and receiving income support in his or her own right and

who is in full time attendance at high school, an amount determined by the minister not to exceed the maximum amount for one child provided under the Canada Child Benefit and the Newfoundland and Labrador child benefit;

4. Subsection 50(4) of the regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

(4) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where a child benefit adjustment is paid to a recipient under paragraph 19(1)(g) and that recipient receives a retroactive payment of the Newfoundland and Labrador child benefit or the Canada Child Benefit, or both benefits with respect to the same period, the amount of child benefit adjustment that was paid or the retroactive payment, whichever is less, shall be recovered in full from the recipient's income support entitlement.

Commencement

5. These regulations come into force on July 1, 2018.