Publications

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.

Ministerial Advisory Group (MAG) for Architecture and the Built Environment response to DAERA Consultation on Northern Ireland’s 2030 & 2040 Emissions Reduction Targets & First Three Carbon Budgets & Seeking views on Climate Change Committee Advice Report: Th

As required by legislation, the Department has completed a comprehensive review of the Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 to ensure it is delivering as intended. 

The proposed Statutory Rule, the Pensions Dashboards (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023, revokes and replaces the Pensions Dashboards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023 No.

Fraudulent or Suspected Fraudulent funding applications uncovered by the Department

Skills and training programmes funded by the Department which offer Childcare support to participants

The amount allocated to The Empty Homes Strategy since 2013 and a breakdown of hiw this was spent

A change in the Notice to Quit Policy from 28 days to 7 days

Information regarding damage to State Care Monuments over the past 5 years

These Regulations amend regulation 10 of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979  (“the 1979 Regulations”), so that a Category D retirement pension can continue to be claimed by those resident in

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

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 9 April 2024.

When a person changes jobs they also leave their employer’s pension scheme. An employee can ask to have their pension rights transferred to the new scheme.

In accordance with section 146(5) and (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, the Department is required to prepare an annual report on the operation of the Social Fund and to lay the report before the Assembly.