The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1996

Family Credit

16.  In the Family Credit Regulations—

(a) in regulation 13(1)(c)(1), for the sum of £40 there shall be substituted the sum of £60;

(b) in regulation 46(4) (determination of appropriate maximum family credit), the capital sum prescribed is £3,000;

(c) in regulation 46(4), (5) and (6), the amount specified for the credit in respect of a child or young person is NIL;

(d) in regulation 47 (applicable amount), for the sum of £73.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £75.20;

(e) in paragraph 19(b)(2) of Schedule 2 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings), for the sum of £9.20 there shall be substituted the sum of £9.25; and

(f) in Schedule 4 (determination of maximum family credit), the sums prescribed shall be increased so as to have effect as set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.

(1)

Sub-paragraph (c) was inserted by S.I. 1994/1924, regulation 4(3)(b).

(2)

Paragraph 19 was substituted by S.I. 1994/527, regulation 22(2).