The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 1993

Applicable amounts for income support

16.—(1) As from 12th April 1993 the sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount as specified in the Income Support Regulations shall be the sums set out in the following provisions of this Article and the Schedules thereto; and for this purpose references in this Article to numbered regulations or Schedules are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to the regulations of, or Schedules to, the Income Support Regulations bearing those numbers.

(2) In regulations 17(1)(b), 18(1)(c), 21(1) and 71(1)(a)(ii), (b)(ii) and (iii), (c)(ii) and (d)(i), and in paragraph 14(a) of Part III of Schedule 2 and paragraph 1(2) of Part I of Schedule 4, the sum specified is in each case £3,000.

(3) Except as provided for in paragraph (4) below, the sums specified in Part I of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts: personal allowances) shall be increased; and accordingly that Part of Schedule 2 shall have effect as set out in Schedule 4 to this order.

(4) In paragraph 2A of Part I of Schedule 2 the sum specified in sub-paragraph (1) is £45·00.

(5) In paragraph 3 of Part 11 of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts: family premium) for the sum of £9·30 there shall be substituted the sum of £9·65.

(6) The sums specified in Part IV of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts: weekly amounts of premiums) shall be increased; and accordingly that Part of Schedule 2 shall have effect as set out in Schedule 5 to this order.

(7) In paragraph 11(1) of Schedule 3 (housing costs: non-dependant deductions)—

(a) in head (a) for the sum of £18·00, there shall be substituted the sum of £21·00; and

(b) in head (b) the sum specified is £4·00.

(8) In paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 3 (housing costs: non-dependant deductions)—

(a) in head (a) for the sum of £65·00 there shall be substituted the sum of £70·00;

(b) in head (b) the sums specified shall be £70·00, £105·00, and £8·00 respectively; and

(c) in head (c) the sums specified shall be £105·00, £135·00 and £12·00 respectively.

(9) In paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 4, for the sum of £205·00 there shall be substituted the sum of £215·00.

(10) Those sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount which are specified in Schedule 4 (applicable amounts of persons in residential care and nursing homes) shall be increased; and accordingly those paragraphs in Schedule 4 where such a sum is specified shall have effect as set out in Part I of Schedule 6 to this order.

(11) Except as provided in paragraphs (2), (9) and (10) of this Article, the sums specified in Schedule 4 are those set out in Part II of Schedule 6 to this order.

(12) Those sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount which are specified in Schedule 7 (applicable amounts in special cases) shall be increased; and accordingly those paragraphs in Schedule 7 where such a sum is specified shall have effect as set out in Part I of Schedule 7 to this order.

(13) Except as provided in paragraph (12) above, the sums specified in Schedule 7 are those set out in Part II of Schedule 7 to this order.

(14) The sums specified in any provision of the Income Support Regulations set out in column (1) of Schedule 8 to this order are the sums set out in column (2) of that Schedule.