The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1991

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

5.—(1) Paragraphs (2) to (8) of this article, which are subject to the provisions of paragraph (9) below, specify the date on which the increases 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.

(2) In relation to the case of a person over pensionable age whose entitlement to a Category A retirement pension is deferred 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 3, 4 and 7 for Category A and B retirement pension and graduated retirement benefit (together with, where appropriate, increases for dependants) shall take effect on 11th April 1991 and in relation to all other cases the increases in such sums shall take effect on 8th April 1991.

(3) The increases in the sums mentioned in Article 4(3)(c) and (4) shall take effect on 8th April 1991.

(4) The increases in the sums specified for the rate of maternity allowance, widowed mother’s allowance, widow’s pension, Category C and D retirement pension, child’s special allowance(2), 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) (together with, where appropriate, increases for dependants), and guardian’s allowance shall in all cases take effect on 8th April 1991.

(5) The increases in 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) (together with, where appropriate, increases for dependants), disablement benefit (together with increases of disablement pension), maximum disablement gratuity under section 57(5) of the 1975 Act(3), 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) and maximum, under section 91(1) of the 1975 Act, of the aggregate of weekly benefit payable for successive accidents, shall in all cases take effect from and including 10th April 1991.

(6) Where a person’s 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(4) 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 8th April 1991 and where it does not fall to be so increased the sum so specified shall take effect on 11th April 1991.

(7) The increases in the sums specified for the rate 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 llth April 1991.

(8) The increase in the sums falling to be calculated in accordance with section 59B(5) of the 1975 Act (retirement allowance) shall take effect on 10th April 1991.

(9) In the case of a person who is subject to the provisions of regulations made under section 85(1)(b) of the 1975 Act (adjustment of benefit for persons undergoing medical or other treatment as an in-patient in a hospital) the increase in the sum mentioned in article 4(2)(b) of this Order shall take effect in that case on the day on which the increase in the benefit payable to him apart from those Regulations takes effect.

(1)

Section 14(6) is amended by the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), section 65(1), Schedule 4, paragraph 39(b), the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18), section 21(4), Schedule 3, paragraph 6 and the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 1, paragraph 4(2) and Schedule 9; 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)

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

(3)

Section 57(5) was repealed by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 86, Schedule 11; except where the claim for benefit was made before 1.10.86 — see the 1986 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 3(3).

(4)

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