The Social Security Benefits Up-rating (No.2) Order 1987

Dates on which sums specified for rates or amounts of benefit under the 1975 Act or the Pensions Act are altered by this Order

4.—(1) The alterations made by this Order in the sums specified for rates or amounts of benefit under the 1975 Act or the Pensions Act shall take effect for each case on the date specified in relation to such case in the following provisions of this article.

(2) In relation to the case of a person over pensionable age who has not retired from regular employment and for whom the rate of unemployment benefit, sickness benefit or invalidity pension falls to be calculated in accordance with section 14(6) or 15(4) of the 1975 Act(1), the increases in the sums mentioned in articles 2, 3 and 6 for Category A and B retirement pension and graduated retirement benefit (together with, where appropriate, increases for dependants) shall take effect on 14th April 1988 and in relation to all other cases the increases in such sums shall take effect on 11th April 1988.

(3) The increase mentioned in article 3(5) shall take effect on 11th April 1988.

(4) The alterations in the amounts of maternity allowance, widow’s allowance(2), widowed mother’s allowance, widow’s pension, Category C and D retirement pension, child’s special allowance(3), attendance allowance, invalid care allowance (except in a case where the Secretary of State has made arrangements for it to be paid on a Wednesday), guardian’s allowance and industrial death benefit by way of widow’s and widower’s pension and allowance in respect of children (together with, where appropriate, increases for dependants) shall in all cases take effect on 11th April 1988.

(5) The sums specified for the rate of mobility allowance, invalid care allowance (in a case where the Secretary of State has made arrangements for it to be paid on a Wednesday), disablement benefit (together with increases of disablement pension), maximum disablement gratuity under section 57(5) of the 1975 Act(4), increase of unemployability supplement under section 59 of the 1975 Act(5) and maximum, under section 91(1) of the 1975 Act, of the aggregate of weekly benefit payable for successive accidents, shall be increased in all cases with effect from 13th April 1988.

(6) In relation to the case of a person whose weekly rate of Category A or B retirement pension falls to be increased under the provisions of section 28(7) or 29(8) of the 1975 Act(6) by reference to the weekly rate of invalidity allowance to which he was previously entitled, the increase in the sum specified for the appropriate rate of invalidity allowance shall take effect on 11th April 1988 and in relation to all other cases the increase in such sum shall take effect on 14th April 1988.

(7) The alterations in the rates or amounts of unemployment and sickness benefit, invalidity pension and severe disablement allowance (together with, where appropriate, increase for dependants), shall take effect in all cases on 14th April 1988.

(1)

Section 14(6) is amended by the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), section 65(1), Schedule 4, paragraph 39(b), and the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18), section 21(4), Schedule 3, paragraph 6; and section 15(4) is amended by the Social Security Pensions Act 1975, section 65(1), Schedule 4, paragraph 40(c) and the Social Security Act 1979, section 21(4), Schedule 3, paragraph 7.

(2)

Widow’s allowance is replaced as from 11th April 1988 by widow’s payment (section 36(1) and (2) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50)) except in the case of widows whose husbands died before that date (regulation 2 of S.I. 1987/1692).

(3)

Child’s special allowance is abolished except for existing beneficiaries as from 6th April 1987 (section 40 of the Social Security Act 1986).

(4)

Repealed by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 86, Schedule 11; but saved in certain circumstances by S.I. 1986/1561, regulation 13.

(5)

Repealed, except for existing beneficiaries, by the Social Security Act 1986; see section 39, Schedule 3, paragraph 4.

(6)

Section 28(7) is amended by the Social Security (No.2) Act 1980 (c. 39), section 3(3).