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Social Security Act 1988

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. Attendance allowance

    1. 1.Attendance allowance

  3. Industrial injuries

    1. 2.Introduction of retirement allowance and other provisions relating to industrial injuries benefit

  4. Family credit

    1. 3.Family credit

  5. Young persons

    1. 4.Income support and child benefit

    2. 5.Annual review of child benefit

  6. Short-term benefits

    1. 6.Contribution conditions for short-term benefits

    2. 7.Unemployment benefit and occupational pension

  7. Emergency payments

    1. 8.Emergency payments by local authorities and other bodies

  8. Earnings factors etc.

    1. 9.Earnings factors and transfer values

    2. 10.Increase and reduction of benefit by reference to earnings

  9. The social fund

    1. 11.Amendments relating to the social fund

  10. Up-rating

    1. 12.Up-rating Orders

  11. Welfare foods

    1. 13.Schemes for distribution etc. of welfare foods

  12. Remission of Health Service charges and payment of travelling expenses

    1. 14.National Health Service—remission of charges and payment of travelling expenses

  13. General and supplementary

    1. 15.Financial provision

    2. 16.Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

    3. 17.Northern Ireland

    4. 18.Commencement

    5. 19.Extent

    6. 20.Citation

  14. SCHEDULES

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Industrial Death Benefit

      1. 1.In Schedule 4 to the Social Security Act 1975, in...

      2. 2.The repeals by the Social Security Act 1986 of the...

      3. 3.Section 69 of the Social Security Act 1975 (widower’s death...

      4. 4.Paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Act...

      5. 5.In paragraph 10 of that Schedule— (a) after the word...

      6. 6.(1) Any repeal by the Social Security Act 1986—

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Earnings Factors and Transfer Values

      1. Part I Earnings Factors

        1. 1.(1) In section 13 of the Social Security Act 1975—...

        2. 2.The following section shall be inserted after section 60A of...

      2. Part II Transfer Values

        1. 3.In paragraph 12 of Schedule 1A to the Social Security...

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      The Social Fund

      1. Amendments of section 32 of 1986 Act

        1. 1.Section 32 of the Social Security Act 1986 shall be...

        2. 2.The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (2)—

        3. 3.Subsection (3) shall cease to have effect.

        4. 4.The following subsections shall be inserted after subsection (7)—

        5. 5.In subsection (8) the words from “and” to the end...

        6. 6.The following subsections shall be inserted after that subsection—

        7. 7.The following subsections shall be inserted after subsection (9)—

      2. Amendments of section 33

        1. 8.Section 33 of the Social Security Act 1986 shall be...

        2. 9.At the end of subsection (1) there shall be added...

        3. 10.The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1)—

        4. 11.The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (4)—

        5. 12.In subsection (9)(e) for “(8)” there shall be substituted “(8A)...

        6. 13.The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (10)—

      3. Miscellaneous

        1. 14.The Social Security Act 1986 shall also be amended as...

        2. 15.The words “to him” shall be omitted from section 34(1)...

        3. 16.In sections 51(2), 52(6) and 53(10) (claims and payments, adjudication...

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

      1. Exemption from Income Tax

        1. 1.The following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph (a) of...

      2. Employment and Training

        1. 2.The following subsection shall be substituted for section 12(2) of...

      3. Social Security Act 1975

        1. 3.The Social Security Act 1975 shall be amended as follows....

        2. 4.The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (2) of...

        3. 5.In section 22 (maternity allowance)— (a) at the end of...

        4. 6.In section 44 (short-term benefit increase for adult dependants)—

        5. 7.In section 45 (pension increase (wife))— (a) in subsection (2)(b),...

        6. 8.In section 45A (pension increase (husband))— (a) in subsection (2)(b),...

        7. 9.In subsection (4) of section 46 (pension increase (female with...

        8. 10.In subsection (1)(a) of section 47 (invalidity pension (dependant relative))...

        9. 11.The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1) of...

        10. 12.In section 59A (reduced earnings allowance)— (a) in subsection (8),...

        11. 13.In section 66 (adult dependants) there shall cease to have...

        12. 14.At the end of subsection (1)(c) of section 104 (review...

      4. Social Security Act 1986—statutory maternity pay

        1. 15.The provisions of the Social Security Act 1986 specified in...

        2. 16.(1) In paragraph (e) of section 46(8), for the words...

        3. 17.At the end of section 48(2) there shall be added...

        4. 18.In section 50(1), in the definition of “employer”, the words...

        5. 19.(1) In paragraph 11 of Schedule 4, for the word...

      5. Social Security Act 1986—housing benefit

        1. 20.The following subsection shall be added at the end of...

      6. Other amendments of Social Security Act 1986

        1. 21.The Social Security Act 1986 shall also be amended as...

        2. 22.In subsection (3) of section 17 (statutory provisions which may...

        3. 23.(1) In subsection (1) of section 21 (amount etc. of...

        4. 24.(1) The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (5)...

        5. 25.The following section shall be inserted after section 23— Effect...

        6. 26.The following subsection shall be inserted after section 29(7)—

        7. 27.The following subsection shall be inserted after section 33(8)—

        8. 28.The following subsection shall be inserted after section 53(7)—

        9. 29.Paragraphs 26 to 28 above shall be deemed to have...

        10. 30.(1) In paragraph (c) of subsection (10) of section 53...

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      Repeals

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