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The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2019

Draft Legislation:

This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2019 No. 480

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 INTRODUCTION

    1. 1.Citation, extent, 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.Increase in rates or amounts of certain pensions and allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act

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

    4. 6.Increase in 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.Increase in rate of graduated retirement benefit

    11. 13.Increase in amount of Category C retirement pension under the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979

    12. 14.Maximum additional pension

    13. 15.Increase in rates of Disability Living Allowance

    14. 16.Increase in rates of Personal Independence Payment

    15. 17.Rates of age addition

    16. 18.Rates of transitional invalidity allowance

    17. 19.Rates of bereavement benefits

    18. 20.Rates of 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.Housing Benefit

    4. 24.Housing Benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for State Pension Credit

  5. PART 4 JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE

    1. 25.Applicable amounts for Jobseeker’s Allowance

  6. PART 5 STATE PENSION CREDIT

    1. 26.State Pension Credit

  7. PART 6 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE

    1. 27.Applicable amounts for the ESA Regulations 2008

    2. 28.Prescribed amount for the ESA Regulations 2013

  8. PART 7 UNIVERSAL CREDIT

    1. 29.Universal Credit

  9. PART 8 REVOCATION

    1. 30.Revocation

  10. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      PROVISIONS OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      PART IV OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE INCOME SUPPORT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      PARAGRAPH 1 OF PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    6. SCHEDULE 6

      PART IV OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    7. SCHEDULE 7

      PART IVB OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    8. SCHEDULE 8

      PART 3 OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE ESA REGULATIONS 2008 AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    9. SCHEDULE 9

      AMOUNTS OF CERTAIN ELEMENTS SPECIFIED IN THE TABLE IN REGULATION 36 OF THE UNIVERSAL CREDIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

  12. Explanatory Note

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