NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 58/25

Income and Employment Support Regulations (Amendment) No. 2
under the
Income and Employment Support Act
(O.C. 2025-209)

(Filed July 24, 2025)

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, July 23, 2025.

Andrea McKenna
Deputy Clerk of the Executive Council

REGULATIONS

Analysis

        1.   S.2 Amdt.
Definitions

        2.   S.19 Amdt.
Other income support

        3.   S.27 Amdt.
Where death is involved

 

 

NLR 144/04
as amended

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 (1) Paragraph 2(c.1) of the Income and Employment Support Regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

          (c.1)  "dependent" means a dependent of an applicant or recipient who is

                      (i)  a child under the age of 18 years, or

                     (ii)  a dependent student;

             (2)  Section 2 of the regulations is amended by adding immediately after paragraph (h) the following:

         (h.1)  "school-aged dependent" means a dependent referred to in subparagraph (c.1)(i) who, by December 31 in a year, will be 5 years of age or older;

 

        2. Subsection 19(5) of the regulations is amended by deleting the word "and" at the end of paragraph (c), deleting the period at the end of paragraph (d) and substituting a semi-colon and adding immediately after paragraph (d) the following:

             (e)  for a recipient with one or more school-aged dependents, an annual contribution towards school-related expenses in the amount of $100 a year in respect of each school-aged dependent of the recipient; and

             (f)  for a recipient who is 18 years of age or older but under 21 years of age who attends high school, an annual contribution towards school-related expenses in the amount of $100 a year.

 

        3. (1) Paragraph 27(3)(a) of the regulations is repealed.

             (2)  Subsection 27(5) of the regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

             (5)  Notwithstanding subsection (3), when determining the amount for expenses referred to in subsections (1) and (2) with respect to a deceased person who was a recipient of income support at the time of death, or during the 12-month period immediately before the time of death, an officer shall deduct only

             (a)  any monies held in trust for the deceased person's expenses referred to in subsections (1) and (2); and

             (b)  a death benefit from any source to which the estate of the deceased person is entitled.

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