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The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit)(Transitional) Regulations 1995

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Transitional provision for the treatment of earnings in respect of increases of long-term incapacity benefit for dependants.

26.  Where—

(a)on or after the appointed day—

(i)no increase or a reduced amount of the rate of increase of long-term incapacity benefit is payable for an adult dependant as a consequence of regulation 5 (attribution of earnings) or regulation 10 (earnings rules for increases for adult dependants) of the Increases for Dependants Regulations; or

(ii)no increase of long-term incapacity benefit is payable for a child dependant as a consequence of section 80(3) and (4) of the 1992 Act and regulation 5 (attribution of earnings) of the Increases for Dependants Regulations; and

(b)in a case where the increase for an adult dependant is reduced, the amount of reduction would have been less had the 1994 Act and regulations 5 and 10 of the Increases for Dependants Regulations not come into force; and

(c)the earnings which caused there to be no payment of an increase or a reduction of an increase in paragraph (a) had already resulted in no payment of or a reduced payment of an increase before the appointed day,

a payment of an increase shall be made as if the provisions in the 1992 Act in force immediately before the appointed day continued to have effect in respect of those earnings and the 1994 Act had not been enacted and regulations 5 and 10 of the Increases for Dependants Regulations had not come into force.

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