PART 2SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS
Rates or amounts of certain pensions under Part 1 of the Pensions Act6
1
The sums specified in paragraphs (2) to (4) shall be increased from and including the date specified in Article 7(10).
2
In regulation 1A of the State Pension Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 M1 (full rate of state pension) for “£159∙55” substitute “
£164∙35
”
.
3
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 3∙0 per cent.
4
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;
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 one or more other pensions under Part 1 of 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 one or more other pensions under Part 1 of that Act exceed the full rate,
shall in each case be increased by 3∙0 per cent.
5
For the purpose of this Article, “old state pension” has the same meaning as in section 22 of the Pensions Act.