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Article 3(1)
Description of benefit | Weekly rate | ||
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2. | Short-term incapacity benefit. | (a) lower rate | £86.10 |
(b) higher rate | £101.90 | ||
2A. | Long-term incapacity benefit. | £114.15 | |
5. | Category B retirement pension where section 48A(4) or 48AA(4) applies. | £80.45 |
Description of benefit | Weekly rate | ||
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1. | Attendance allowance. | (a) higher rate | £89.15 |
(b) lower rate | £59.70 | ||
(the appropriate rate being determined in accordance with section 65(3)). | |||
2. | Severe disablement allowance. | £80.85 | |
3. | Age related addition. | (a) higher rate | £12.10 |
(b) middle rate | £6.70 | ||
(c) lower rate | £6.70 | ||
(the appropriate rate being determined in accordance with section 69(1)). | |||
4. | Carer’s allowance(2). | £67.25 | |
7. | Category D retirement pension(3). | £80.45 | |
8. | Age addition (to a pension of any category, and otherwise under section 79). | £0.25. |
Benefit to which increase applies (1)(4) | Increase for qualifying child (2) | Increase for adult dependant (3) | ||
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£ | £ | |||
1A. | Short-term incapacity benefit(5)— | |||
(a) | where the beneficiary is under pensionable age; | 11.35 | 51.65 | |
(b) | where the beneficiary is over pensionable age. | 11.35 | 63.80 | |
2. | Long-term incapacity benefit. | 11.35 | 66.30 | |
4. | Widowed mother’s allowance. | 11.35 | — | |
4A. | Widowed parent’s allowance(6). | 11.35 | — | |
5. | Category A or B retirement pension. | 11.35 | — | |
6. | Category C retirement pension. | 11.35 | — | |
8. | Severe disablement allowance. | 11.35 | 39.75 | |
9. | Carer’s allowance. | 11.35 | — |
Description of benefit, etc. | Rate | |||||||
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1. | Disablement pension (weekly rates). | For the several degrees of disablement set out in column (1) of the following Table, the respective amounts in column (2) of that Table(7). | ||||||
TABLE | ||||||||
Degree of Disablement | Amount | |||||||
(1) | (2) | |||||||
Per cent. | £ | |||||||
100 | 182.00 | |||||||
90 | 163.80 | |||||||
80 | 145.60 | |||||||
70 | 127.40 | |||||||
60 | 109.20 | |||||||
50 | 91.00 | |||||||
40 | 72.80 | |||||||
30 | 54.60 | |||||||
20 | 36.40 | |||||||
2. | Maximum increase of weekly rate of disablement pension where constant attendance needed. | (a) | except in cases of exceptionally severe disablement | £72.80; | ||||
(b) | in any case | £145.60. | ||||||
3. | Increase of weekly rate of disablement pension (exceptionally severe disablement). | £72.80. | ||||||
4. | Maximum of aggregate of weekly benefit payable for successive accidents(8). | £182.00. | ||||||
5. | Unemployability supplement under paragraph 2 of Schedule 7. | £112.55. | ||||||
6. | Increase under paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 of weekly rate of unemployability supplement. | (a) | if on the qualifying date the beneficiary was under the age of 35 or if that date fell before 5th July 1948 | £23.30 | ||||
(b) | if head (a) above does not apply and on the qualifying date the beneficiary was under the age of 40 and he had not attained pensionable age before 6th April 1979 | £23.30 | ||||||
(c) | if heads (a) and (b) above do not apply and on the qualifying date the beneficiary was under the age of 45 | £14.90; | ||||||
(d) | if heads (a), (b) and (c) above do not apply and on the qualifying date the beneficiary was under the age of 50 and had not attained pensionable age before 6th April 1979 | £14.90 | ||||||
(e) | in any other case | £7.45. | ||||||
7. | Increase under paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 of weekly rate of disablement pension. | £11.35. | ||||||
8. | Increase under paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 of weekly rate of disablement pension. | £67.25. | ||||||
9. | Maximum disablement gratuity under paragraph 9 of Schedule 7. | £12,080.00. | ||||||
10. | Widow’s pension (weekly rates)(9). | (b) | higher permanent rate | £134.25; | ||||
(c) | lower permanent rate 30 per cent of the first sum specified in section 44(4) (Category A basic retirement pension) (the appropriate rate being determined in accordance with paragraph 16 of Schedule 7) | |||||||
11. | Widower’s pension (weekly rate). | £134.25. | ||||||
12. | Weekly rate of allowance in respect of children and qualifying young persons(10) under paragraph 18 of Schedule 7. | In respect of each child or qualifying young person | £11.35. |
Paragraph 2 was substituted, and paragraph 2A was inserted, by section 2(2) of the 1994 Act. Paragraph 5 was amended by paragraph 21 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act 1995, paragraph 68 of Schedule 12 to the Pensions Act and by S.I. 2018/281.
Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2002/1457.
Paragraph 7 was amended by paragraph 81(b) of Schedule 12 to the Pensions Act.
The entries relating to widowed mother’s allowance and widowed parent’s allowance in column (1) and the increase for a qualifying child in column (2) were repealed by Schedule 6 to the Tax Credits Act. Articles 3 and 4 of S.I. 2003/938 save the repealed provisions in certain circumstances.
Paragraph 1A was inserted, and paragraph 2 substituted, by section 2(6) of the 1994 Act.
Paragraph 4A was inserted by paragraph 14 of Schedule 8 to the 1999 Act.
This entry was amended by section 65(2) of the 2012 Act.
This entry was amended by section 65(3) of the 2012 Act.
Widow’s and widower’s pension are payable in relation only to deaths occurring before 11th April 1988 (paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 7 to the Contributions and Benefits Act). Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2016/230.
Paragraph 12 was amended by paragraph 15(3) of Schedule 1 to the 2005 Act which inserted the words “and qualifying young persons” and substituted the words “child or qualifying young person”.
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