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The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2024

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 INTRODUCTION

    1. 1.Citation, commencement and effect

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. PART 2 SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS

    1. 3.Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act

    2. 4.Rates or amounts of certain pensions and allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act

    3. 5.Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Pension Schemes Act

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

    5. 7.Dates on which sums specified for rates or amounts of benefits in Articles 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13 are changed by this Order

    6. 8.Statutory sick pay

    7. 9.Statutory maternity pay

    8. 10.Statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay, statutory shared parental pay and statutory parental bereavement pay

    9. 11.>Graduated retirement benefit

    10. 12.Amount of Category C retirement pension under the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979

    11. 13.Maximum additional pension

    12. 14.Disability living allowance

    13. 15.Personal independence payment

    14. 16.Age addition to long-term incapacity benefit

    15. 17.Transitional invalidity allowance in long-term incapacity benefit cases

    16. 18.Bereavement benefits

    17. 19.Bereavement support payment

  4. PART 3 INCOME SUPPORT AND HOUSING BENEFIT

    1. 20.Applicable amounts for income support

    2. 21.Income support transitional protection

    3. 22.Relevant sum for income support

    4. 23.Housing benefit

    5. 24.Housing benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for state pension credit

  5. PART 4 JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE

    1. 25.Age-related amounts of contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance

    2. 26.Applicable amounts for jobseeker’s allowance

    3. 27.Prescribed sum for the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996

    4. 28.Amounts for the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 2016

  6. PART 5 STATE PENSION CREDIT

    1. 29.State pension credit

  7. PART 6 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE

    1. 30.Applicable amounts for the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008

    2. 31.Prescribed amount for the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2016

  8. PART 7 UNIVERSAL CREDIT

    1. 32.Universal credit

    2. 33.Amendment of the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations

  9. PART 8 REVOCATION

    1. 34.Revocation

  10. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE1

      Provisions of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act as amended by this Order

      1. PART I CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS

      2. PART III NON-CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS

      3. PART IV INCREASES FOR DEPENDANTS

      4. PART V RATE OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART 1 PERSONAL ALLOWANCES

        1. 1.The weekly amounts specified in column (2) below in respect...

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Part IV of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART IV WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      Part I of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES

        1. 1.The amounts specified in column (2) in respect of each...

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART IV AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

    6. SCHEDULE 6

      Paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit (SPC) Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES

        1. 1.The amount specified in column (2) in respect of each...

    7. SCHEDULE 7

      Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit (SPC) Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART IV AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

    8. SCHEDULE 8

      Part I of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 as amended by this Order

      1. PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES

        1. 1.The weekly amounts specified in column (2) below in respect...

    9. SCHEDULE 9

      Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 as amended by this Order

      1. PART IV WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

    10. SCHEDULE 10

      Part IVB of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 as amended by this Order

      1. PART IVB WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART IVA

    11. SCHEDULE 11

      Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 as amended by this Order

      1. 1.This paragraph applies to cases other than those falling within...

      2. PART 1 PRESCRIBED AMOUNTS

        1. 1.The weekly amounts specified in column (2) in respect of...

        2. 2.This paragraph applies to cases falling within paragraphs 2 to...

      3. PART 1 PRESCRIBED AMOUNTS

        1. 1.The weekly amounts specified in column (2) in respect of...

    12. SCHEDULE 12

      Part 3 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 as amended by this Order

      1. PART 3 WEEKLY AMOUNT OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART 2

    13. SCHEDULE 13

      Amounts of certain elements specified in the table in regulation 38 of the Universal Credit Regulations as amended by this Order

  12. Explanatory Note

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