The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2023

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 INTRODUCTION

    1. 1.Citation, extent, commencement and effect

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. PART 2 SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS

    1. 3.Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act

    2. 4.Increase in rates or amounts of certain pensions and allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act

    3. 5.Increase in rates or amount of certain benefits under the Pension Schemes Act

    4. 6.Increase in rates or amounts of certain pensions under Part 1 of the Pensions Act

    5. 7.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 Order

    6. 8.Earnings Limits

    7. 9.Statutory Sick Pay

    8. 10.Statutory Maternity Pay

    9. 11.Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay, Statutory Shared Parental Pay and Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay

    10. 12.Increase in rate of graduated retirement benefit

    11. 13.Increase in amount of Category C retirement pension under the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979

    12. 14.Maximum additional pension

    13. 15.Increase in rates of Disability Living Allowance

    14. 16.Increase in rates of Personal Independence Payment

    15. 17.Rates of age addition

    16. 18.Rates of transitional invalidity allowance

    17. 19.Rates of bereavement benefits

    18. 20.Rates of bereavement support payment

  4. PART 3 INCOME SUPPORT AND HOUSING BENEFIT

    1. 21.Applicable amounts for Income Support

    2. 22.Income Support Transitional Protection

    3. 23.The relevant sum for Income Support

    4. 24.Housing Benefit

    5. 25.Housing Benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for State Pension Credit

  5. PART 4 JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE

    1. 26.Increase in age-related amounts of contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance

    2. 27.Applicable amounts for Jobseeker’s Allowance

    3. 28.The prescribed sum for the JSA Regulations 1996

    4. 29.Amounts for the JSA Regulations 2013

  6. PART 5 STATE PENSION CREDIT

    1. 30.State Pension Credit

  7. PART 6 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE

    1. 31.Applicable amounts for the ESA Regulations 2008

    2. 32.Prescribed amount for the ESA Regulations 2013

  8. PART 7 UNIVERSAL CREDIT

    1. 33.Universal Credit

  9. PART 8 REVOCATION

    1. 34.Revocation

  10. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      PROVISIONS OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

      1. PART I CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS

      2. PART III NON-CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS

      3. PART IV INCREASES FOR DEPENDANTS

      4. PART V RATES OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      PARAGRAPH 1 OF PART I OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE INCOME SUPPORT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

      1. PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      PART IV OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE INCOME SUPPORT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

      1. PART IV WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      PARAGRAPH 1 OF PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

      1. PART 1 Personal Allowances

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

      1. PART 4 Amounts of premiums specified in Part 3

    6. SCHEDULE 6

      PARAGRAPH 1 OF PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

      1. PART 1 Personal Allowances

    7. SCHEDULE 7

      PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

      1. PART 4 Amounts of premiums specified in Part 3

    8. SCHEDULE 8

      PARAGRAPH 1 OF PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE JSA REGULATIONS 1996 AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

      1. PART 1 Personal Allowances

    9. SCHEDULE 9

      PART IV OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE JSA REGULATIONS 1996 AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

      1. PART IV Weekly amounts of premiums specified in Part III

    10. SCHEDULE 10

      PART IVB OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE JSA REGULATIONS 1996 AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

      1. PART IVB Weekly amounts of premiums specified in Part IVA

    11. SCHEDULE 11

      PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE ESA REGULATIONS 2008 AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    12. SCHEDULE 12

      PART 3 OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE ESA REGULATIONS 2008 AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

      1. PART 3 Weekly amount of premiums specified in Part 2

    13. SCHEDULE 13

      AMOUNTS OF ELEMENTS SPECIFIED IN THE TABLE IN REGULATION 36 OF THE UNIVERSAL CREDIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

  12. Explanatory Note