Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2021 No. 82
Social Security
Statutory Maternity Pay; Statutory Sick Pay; Employment; Housing; Rates
The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (NorthernIreland) 2021 (revoked)
Order revoked (10.5.2021) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 (revoked) 2022 (S.R. 2022/143), arts., 1(1)(q)
Approved by resolution of the Assembly on 21st June 2021
Made 25th March 2021
Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1

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PART 1 INTRODUCTION

Citation, commencement and effect
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Interpretation
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PART 2 SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS

Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act
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Rates or amounts of certain pensions and allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act
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Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Pension Schemes Act
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Rates or amounts of certain pensions under Part 1 of the Pensions Act
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Dates on which sums specified for rates or amounts of benefits in Articles 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 13 and 14 are changed by this Order
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Earnings limits
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Statutory sick pay
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Statutory maternity pay
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Statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay and statutory shared parental pay
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Graduated retirement benefit
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Amount of Category C retirement pension under the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979
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Maximum additional pension
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Disability living allowance
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Personal independence payment
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Age addition to long-term incapacity benefit
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Transitional invalidity allowance in long-term incapacity benefit cases
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Bereavement benefits
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Bereavement support payment
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PART 3 INCOME SUPPORT AND HOUSING BENEFIT

Applicable amounts for income support
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Income support transitional protection
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Relevant sum for income support
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Housing benefit
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Housing benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for state pension credit
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PART 4 JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE

Age-related amounts of contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance
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Applicable amounts for jobseeker’s allowance
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Prescribed sum for the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996
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Amounts for the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 2016
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PART 5 STATE PENSION CREDIT

State pension credit
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PART 6 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE

Applicable amounts for the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008
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Prescribed amount for the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2016
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PART 7 UNIVERSAL CREDIT

Universal credit
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PART 8 REVOCATIONS

Revocations
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SCHEDULE 1 Provisions of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act asamended by this Order
Article 3(1)

PART I CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS
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PART III NON-CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS
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PART IV INCREASES FOR DEPENDANTS
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PART V RATE OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT
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SCHEDULE 2 Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations as amended by this Order
Article 21(3)

PART 1 PERSONAL ALLOWANCES
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SCHEDULE 3 Part IV of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations asamendedbythis Order
Article 21(5)

PART IV WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III
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SCHEDULE 4 Part I of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order
Article 24(5)

PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES
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SCHEDULE 5 Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit Regulations asamendedbythis Order
Article 24(7)

PART IV AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III
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SCHEDULE 6 Paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit (SPC) Regulations asamended by this Order
Article 25(5)(a)

PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES
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SCHEDULE 7 Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit (SPC) Regulations asamended by this Order
Article 25(7)

PART IV AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III
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SCHEDULE 8 Part I of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 as amended by this Order
Article 27(3)(a)

PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES
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SCHEDULE 9 Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 asamended by this Order
Article 27(5)

PART IV WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III
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SCHEDULE 10 Part IVB of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 asamended by this Order
Article 27(6)

PART IVB WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART IVA

SCHEDULE 11 Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 as amended by this Order
Article 31(1), (2) and (3)
1. This paragraph applies to cases other than those falling within paragraphs 2 to 7 of Schedule 2 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2017.

PART 1 PRESCRIBED AMOUNTS
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PART 1 PRESCRIBED AMOUNTS
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SCHEDULE 12 Part 3 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 as amended by this Order
Article 31(1), (4) and (5)

PART 3 WEEKLY AMOUNT OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART 2
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SCHEDULE 13 Amounts of certain elements specified in the table in regulation 38 of the Universal Credit Regulations as amended by this Order
Article 33(2)
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