2020 No. 40

Social Security
Statutory Maternity Pay; Statutory Sick Pay; Employment; Housing; Rates

The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2020 (revoked)F1

Approved by resolution of the Assembly on 16th June 2020

Made

Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1

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Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
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Order revoked (10.5.2021) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/82), arts. 1(1)(q), 34

F1PART 1INTRODUCTION

Citation, commencement and effectF11

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InterpretationF12

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F1PART 2SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS

Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits ActF13

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Rates or amounts of certain pensions and allowances under the Contributions and Benefits ActF14

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Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Pension Schemes ActF15

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Rates or amounts of certain pensions under Part 1 of the Pensions ActF16

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Dates on which sums specified for rates or amounts of benefits in Articles 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 13 and 14 are changed by this OrderF17

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Earnings limitsF18

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Statutory sick payF19

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Statutory maternity payF110

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Statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay and statutory shared parental payF111

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Graduated retirement benefitF112

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Amount of Category C retirement pension under the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979F113

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Maximum additional pensionF114

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Disability living allowanceF115

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Personal independence paymentF116

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Age addition to long-term incapacity benefitF117

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Transitional invalidity allowance in long-term incapacity benefit casesF118

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Bereavement benefitsF119

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Bereavement support paymentF120

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F1PART 3INCOME SUPPORT AND HOUSING BENEFIT

Applicable amounts for income supportF121

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Income support transitional protectionF122

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Relevant sum for income supportF123

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Housing benefitF124

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Housing benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for state pension creditF125

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F1PART 4JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE

Age-related amounts of contribution-based jobseeker’s allowanceF126

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Applicable amounts for jobseeker’s allowanceF127

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Prescribed sum for the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996F128

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Amounts for the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 2016F129

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F1PART 5STATE PENSION CREDIT

State pension creditF130

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F1PART 6EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE

Applicable amounts for the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008F131

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Prescribed amount for the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2016F132

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F1PART 7UNIVERSAL CREDIT

Universal creditF133

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F1PART 8REVOCATIONS

RevocationsF134

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F1SCHEDULE 1Provisions of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act as amended by this Order

Article 3(1)

F1PART ICONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS

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F1PART IIINON-CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS

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F1PART IVINCREASES FOR DEPENDANTS

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F1PART VRATE OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT

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F1SCHEDULE 2Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations as amended by this Order

Article 21(3)

F1PART 1PERSONAL ALLOWANCES

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F1SCHEDULE 3Part IV of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations as amended by this Order

Article 21(5)

F1PART IVWEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

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F1SCHEDULE 4Part I of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

Article 24(5)

F1PART IPERSONAL ALLOWANCES

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F1SCHEDULE 5Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

Article 24(7)

F1PART IVAMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

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F1SCHEDULE 6Paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit (SPC) Regulations as amended by this Order

Article 25(5)(a)

F1PART IPERSONAL ALLOWANCES

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F1SCHEDULE 7Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit (SPC) Regulations as amended by this Order

Article 25(7)

F1PART IVAMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

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F1SCHEDULE 8Part I of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 as amended by this Order

Article 27(3)(a)

F1PART IPERSONAL ALLOWANCES

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F1SCHEDULE 9Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 as amended by this Order

Article 27(5)

F1PART IVWEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

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F1SCHEDULE 10Part IVB of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 as amended by this Order

Article 27(6)

F1PART IVBWEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART IVA

F1SCHEDULE 11Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 as amended by this Order

Article 31(1),(2) and (3)

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F1PART 1PRESCRIBED AMOUNTS

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F1PART 1PRESCRIBED AMOUNTS

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F1SCHEDULE 12Part 3 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 as amended by this Order

Article 31(1), (4) and (5)

F1PART 3WEEKLY AMOUNT OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART 2

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F1SCHEDULE 13Amounts of certain elements specified in the table in regulation 38 of the Universal Credit Regulations as amended by this Order

Article 33(2)

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