The Social Security (2017 Benefits Up-rating) Order (Northern Ireland) 2018

Rates or amounts of certain pensions under Part 1 of the Pensions Act

6.—(1) In regulation 1A of the State Pension Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015(1) (full rate of state pension) for “£155∙65” substitute “£159∙55”.

(2) It is directed that the sums which are increases under section 17 of the Pensions Act in the rates of state pensions under Part 1 of that Act shall be increased by 1∙0 per cent.

(3) The amounts which, under—

(a) section 9 of the Pensions Act, are survivor’s pensions based on inheritance of deferred old state pension;

(b) paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 2 to the Pensions Act, are the amounts of state pensions under Part 1 of the Pensions Act at the transitional rate which exceed the full rate for those who reached pensionable age before 10th April 2017;

(c) paragraphs 5(3) and 6 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act, are the amounts of survivor’s pensions which either alone or in combination with certain other pensions under that Act exceed the full rate; and

(d) paragraphs 5(3) and 6 of Schedule 9 to the Pensions Act, are the amounts of shared state pensions under Part 1 of the Pensions Act which either alone or in combination with certain other pensions under that Act exceed the full rate,

shall in each case be increased by 1∙0 per cent.

(4) For the purpose of this Article, “old state pension” has the same meaning as in section 22 of the Pensions Act.

(1)

S.R. 2015 No. 315; regulation 1A was inserted by regulation 2 of S.R. 2016 No. 88