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The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2023

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 INTRODUCTION

    1. 1.Citation, commencement and effect

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. PART 2 SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS

    1. 3.Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act

    2. 4.Rates or amounts of certain pensions and allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act

    3. 5.Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Pension Schemes Act

    4. 6.Rates or amounts of certain pensions under Part 1 of the Pensions Act

    5. 7.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

    6. 8.Earnings limits

    7. 9.Statutory sick pay

    8. 10.Statutory maternity pay

    9. 11.Statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay and statutory shared parental pay

    10. 12.Graduated retirement benefit

    11. 13.Amount of Category C retirement pension under the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979

    12. 14.Maximum additional pension

    13. 15.Disability living allowance

    14. 16.Personal independence payment

    15. 17.Age addition to long-term incapacity benefit

    16. 18.Transitional invalidity allowance in long-term incapacity benefit cases

    17. 19.Bereavement benefits

    18. 20.Bereavement support payment

  4. PART 3 INCOME SUPPORT AND HOUSING BENEFIT

    1. 21.Applicable amounts for income support

    2. 22.Income support transitional protection

    3. 23.Relevant sum for income support

    4. 24.Housing benefit

    5. 25.Housing benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for state pension credit

  5. PART 4 JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE

    1. 26.Age-related amounts of contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance

    2. 27.Applicable amounts for jobseeker’s allowance

    3. 28.Prescribed sum for the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996

    4. 29.Amounts for the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 2016

  6. PART 5 STATE PENSION CREDIT

    1. 30.State pension credit

  7. PART 6 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE

    1. 31.Applicable amounts for the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008

    2. 32.Prescribed amount for the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2016

  8. PART 7 UNIVERSAL CREDIT

    1. 33.Universal credit

  9. PART 8 REVOCATION

    1. 34.Revocation

  10. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Provisions of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act as amended by this Order

      1. PART I CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS

      2. PART III NON-CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS

      3. PART IV INCREASES FOR DEPENDANTS

      4. PART V RATE OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART 1 PERSONAL ALLOWANCES

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Part IV of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART IV WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      Part I of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART IV AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

    6. SCHEDULE 6

      Paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit (SPC) Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES

    7. SCHEDULE 7

      Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit (SPC) Regulations as amended by this Order

      1. PART IV AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

    8. SCHEDULE 8

      Part I of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 as amended by this Order

      1. PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES

    9. SCHEDULE 9

      Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 as amended by this Order

      1. PART IV WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III

    10. SCHEDULE 10

      Part IVB of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 as amended by this Order

      1. PART IVB WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART IVA

    11. SCHEDULE 11

      Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 as amended by this Order

      1. PART 1 PRESCRIBED AMOUNTS

      2. PART 1 PRESCRIBED AMOUNTS

    12. SCHEDULE 12

      Part 3 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 as amended by this Order

      1. PART 3 WEEKLY AMOUNT OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART 2

    13. SCHEDULE 13

      Amounts of certain elements specified in the table in regulation 38 of the Universal Credit Regulations as amended by this Order

  12. Explanatory Note

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