PART 2 SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS

4 Increase in rates or amounts of certain pensions and allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act
1 The sums specified in paragraphs (2) to (5) shall be increased from and including the respective dates specified in article 6.
2 The sums falling to be calculated under paragraph 13(4) of Schedule 7 to the Contributions and Benefits Act (calculation of weekly rate of a beneficiary’s retirement allowance) shall be increased by 2.7 per cent.
3 In section 44(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (basic pension in a Category A retirement pension)—
(a) for “£73.35” substitute “£75.35”; and
(b) for “£82.05” substitute “£84.25”.
Section 44(4) was substituted by section 68 of the 1998 Act.
4 It is directed that the sums which are—
(a) additional pensions in long-term benefits calculated by reference to any final relevant year earlier than the tax year 2005–2006;
(b) increases in the rates of retirement pensions under Schedule 5 to the Contributions and Benefits Act (increase of pension where entitlement is deferred);
Schedule 5 was amended by paragraph 42 of Schedule 8 to the 1993 Act, paragraph 40 of Schedule 1 to the 1994 Act, paragraphs 6 and 21 of Schedule 4, and Schedule 7, to the Pensions Act 1995, section 39 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19) (“the 2000 Act”) and Schedule 6 to the Tax Credits Act.
(c) lump sums to which surviving spouses or civil partners will become entitled under paragraph 7A of that Schedule on becoming entitled to a Category A or Category B retirement pension (entitlement to lump sum where pensioner’s deceased spouse or civil partner has deferred entitlement); and
Paragraph 7A was inserted by paragraph 11 of Schedule 11 to the Pensions Act 2004 and amended by paragraph 5(11) of the Schedule to the Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2053).
(d) payable to a pensioner as part of his Category A or Category B retirement pension by virtue of an order made under section 126A of the Social Security Act 1975, section 63 of the Social Security Act 1986 or section 150(1)(e) of the Administration Act,
1975 c. 14; section 126A was inserted by section 12 of the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18) and repealed by section 86 of, and Schedule 11 to, the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50).
Section 63 was repealed by Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6).
shall in each case be increased by 2.7 per cent.
See section 151(1) of the Administration Act.
5 The sums which, under—
(a) section 55A of the Contributions and Benefits Act, are shared additional pensions; and
Section 55A was inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to the 1999 Act and amended by section 41(3) of the 2000 Act.
(b) paragraph 2 of Schedule 5A to the Contributions and Benefits Act, are increases in the rates of such pensions,
Schedule 5A was inserted by paragraph 15 of Schedule 11 to the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35).
shall in each case be increased by 2.7 per cent.