The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2005

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. Increase in rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act

   2. 4. Increase in rates or amounts of certain pensions and allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act

   3. 5. Increase in rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Pension Schemes Act

   4. 6. Dates on which sums specified for rates or amounts of benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act or the Pension Schemes Act are increased by this Order

   5. 7. Increase in rates of certain workmen’s compensation and industrial diseases benefits in respect of employment before 5th July 1948

   6. 8. Earnings Limits

   7. 9. Statutory Sick Pay

   8. 10. Statutory Maternity Pay

   9. 11. Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay

   10. 12. Increase in rate of graduated retirement benefit

   11. 13. Increase in rates of Disability Living Allowance

   12. 14. Increase in rates of age addition to long-term incapacity benefit

   13. 15. Increase in rates of transitional invalidity allowance in long-term incapacity benefit cases

4. PART 3 INCOME SUPPORT, HOUSING BENEFIT AND COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT

   1. 16. Applicable amounts for Income Support

   2. 17. Income Support Transitional Protection

   3. 18. The Relevant Sum for Income Support

   4. 19. Housing Benefit

   5. 20. Housing Benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for State Pension Credit

   6. 21. Council Tax Benefit

   7. 22. Council Tax Benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for State Pension Credit

5. PART 4 JOBSEEKER'S ALLOWANCE

   1. 23. Increase in age-related amounts of contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance

   2. 24. Applicable amounts for Jobseeker’s Allowance

   3. 25. The Prescribed Sum for Jobseeker’s Allowance

6. PART 5 STATE PENSION CREDIT

   1. 26. State Pension Credit

7. PART 6 REVOCATION

   1. 27. Revocation

8. Signature

9. SCHEDULES

   1. 1

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

   2. 2

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

   3. 3

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

   4. 4

      Income Support: applicable amounts in special cases

   5. 5

      Other applicable amounts specified in the Income Support Regulations

   6. 6

      Provisions of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

   7. 7

      Part IV of Schedule 2 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

   8. 8

      Provisions of Part I of Schedule 2A to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

   9. 9

      Part IV of Schedule 2A to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

   10. 10

       Provisions of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Council Tax Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

   11. 11

       Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Council Tax Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

   12. 12

       Provisions of Part I of Schedule 1A to the Council Tax Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

   13. 13

       Part IV of Schedule 1A to the Council Tax Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

   14. 14

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

   15. 15

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

   16. 16

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

   17. 17

       Jobseeker’s Allowance: applicable amounts in special cases

   18. 18

       Jobseeker’s Allowance: applicable amounts of joint-claim couples in special cases

   19. 19

       Other applicable amounts specified in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations

   20. 20

       Other amounts specified in State Pension Credit Regulations

10. Explanatory Note