PART 2SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS

Increase in rate of graduated retirement benefit8

1

In section 36(1) of the National Insurance Act 196536 (graduated retirement benefit)—

a

the sum of 12.79 pence shall be increased by 2.7 per cent.; and

b

from and including 7th April 2014 the reference in that provision to that sum shall have effect as a reference to 13.14 pence.

2

The sums which are the increases of graduated retirement benefit under Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) (No. 2) Regulations 197837 (increases for deferred retirement) shall be increased by 2.7 per cent.

3

The sums which are lump sums to which surviving spouses or civil partners will become entitled under Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) Regulations 200538 (increases of graduated retirement benefit and lump sums) shall be increased by 2.7 per cent.

4

The sums which are the additions under section 37(1) of the National Insurance Act 1965 (additions for widows and widowers) shall be increased by 2.7 per cent.