The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART I

    1. 1.Citation, commencement and effect

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. PART II

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

    2. 4.Rates or amounts of certain pensions or allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act

    3. 5.Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Pension Schemes Act

    4. 6.Dates on which sums specified for rates or amounts of benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act or the Pension Schemes Act are increased by this Order

    5. 7.Workmen’s compensation

    6. 8.Earnings limits

    7. 9.Statutory sick pay

    8. 10.Statutory maternity pay

    9. 11.Statutory paternity pay and statutory adoption pay

    10. 12.Graduated retirement benefit

    11. 13.Disability living allowance

    12. 14.Age addition to long-term incapacity benefit

    13. 15.Transitional invalidity allowance in long-term incapacity benefit cases

  4. PART III

    1. 16.Applicable amounts for income support

    2. 17.Income support transitional protection

    3. 18.Relevant sum for income support

    4. 19.Housing benefit

    5. 20.Housing benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for state pension credit

  5. PART IV

    1. 21.Age-related amounts of contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance

    2. 22.Applicable amounts for jobseeker’s allowance

    3. 23.Prescribed sum for jobseeker’s allowance

  6. PART V

    1. 24.State pension credit

  7. PART VI

    1. 25.Revocation

  8. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

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

    2. SCHEDULE 2

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

    3. SCHEDULE 3

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

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      Income support: applicable amounts in special cases

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      Other applicable amounts specified in the Income Support Regulations

    6. SCHEDULE 6

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

    7. SCHEDULE 7

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

    8. SCHEDULE 8

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

    9. SCHEDULE 9

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

    10. SCHEDULE 10

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

    11. SCHEDULE 11

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

    12. SCHEDULE 12

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

    13. SCHEDULE 13

      Jobseeker’s allowance: applicable amounts in special cases

    14. SCHEDULE 14

      Jobseeker’s allowance: applicable amounts of joint-claim couples in special cases

    15. SCHEDULE 15

      Other applicable amounts specified in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations

    16. SCHEDULE 16

      Other amounts specified in the State Pension Credit Regulations

  10. Explanatory Note