Explanatory Notes

Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013

2013 CHAPTER 16

26 March 2013

Introduction

1.These explanatory notes relate to the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013 which received Royal Assent on 26 March 2013. They have been prepared by the Department for Work and Pensions in conjunction with HM Treasury in order to assist the reader of the Act and to help inform debate on it. They do not form part of the Act and have not been endorsed by Parliament.

2.The notes need to be read in conjunction with the Act. They are not, and are not meant to be, a comprehensive description of the Act. So where a section or part of a section does not seem to require any explanation or comment, none is given.