PART IVE+W+S PROVISIONS FOR THE TRANSITION TO INCAPACITY BENEFIT FROM INVALIDITY BENEFIT

Increase of Category A retirement pension for incapacityE+W+S

23.—[F1(1)] Where a person has been entitled to invalidity allowance or transitional invalidity allowance at any time during a period of 57 days before attaining pensionable age, sections 47 and 61 of the 1992 Act shall continue to have effect as though section 11 of, and paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to, the 1994 Act had not come into force and as though any reference to invalidity allowance in section 47 were a reference to transitional invalidity allowance or invalidity allowance.

[F2(2) In the case of a person who is a welfare to work beneficiary in accordance with regulation 13A of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995, the reference in paragraph (1) to a period of 57 days shall be treated as a reference to a period of [F3104 weeks].]

Textual Amendments

F1Reg. 23(1): reg. 23 renumbered as reg. 23(1) (5.10.1998) by The Social Security (Welfare to Work) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2231), regs. 1, 3(3)