The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2011
PART 1
1
Citation, commencement and effect
2
Interpretation
PART 2
3
Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act
4
Increase in rates or amounts of certain pensions and allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act
5
Increase in rates or amount of certain benefits under the Pension Schemes Act
6
Dates on which sums specified for rates or amounts of benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act or the Pension Schemes Act are changed by this Order
7
Increase in rates of certain compensation and industrial diseases benefits in respect of employment before 5th July 1948
8
Earnings Limits
9
Statutory Sick Pay
10
Statutory Maternity Pay
11
Ordinary and Additional Statutory Paternity Pay, and Statutory Adoption Pay
12
Increase in rate of graduated retirement benefit
13
Increase in rates of Disability Living Allowance
14
Rates of age addition
15
Rates of transitional invalidity allowance
16
Rates of bereavement benefits
PART 3
17
Applicable amounts for Income Support
18
Income Support Transitional Protection
19
The Relevant Sum for Income Support
20
Housing Benefit
21
Housing Benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for State Pension Credit
22
Council Tax Benefit
23
Council Tax Benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for State Pension Credit
PART 4
24
Increase in age-related amounts of contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
25
Applicable amounts for Jobseeker’s Allowance
26
The Prescribed Sum for Jobseeker’s Allowance
PART 5
27
State Pension Credit
PART 6
28
Applicable amounts for Employment and Support Allowance
PART 7
29
Revocation
SCHEDULE 1
PROVISIONS OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART I
CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS
PART II
BEREAVEMENT PAYMENT
PART III
NON-CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS
PART IV
INCREASES FOR DEPENDANTS
PART V
RATES OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT
SCHEDULE 2
PART I OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE INCOME SUPPORT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART I
PERSONAL ALLOWANCES
1
The weekly amounts specified in column (2) below in respect...
2
(1) The weekly amounts specified in column (2) below in...
SCHEDULE 3
PART IV OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE INCOME SUPPORT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART IV
WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III
SCHEDULE 4
APPLICABLE AMOUNTS SPECIFIED IN THE INCOME SUPPORT REGULATIONS
SCHEDULE 5
PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART 1
Personal Allowances
1
The amounts specified in column (2) below in respect of...
2
(1) The amounts specified in column (2) below in respect...
SCHEDULE 6
PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART4
Amounts of premiums specified in Part 3
SCHEDULE 7
PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART1
1
The amount specified in column (2) below in respect of...
2
(1) The amounts specified in column (2) below in respect...
SCHEDULE 8
PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART4
SCHEDULE 9
PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART1
1
The amounts specified in column (2) below in respect of...
2
(1) The amounts specified in column (2) below in respect...
SCHEDULE 10
PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART4
SCHEDULE 11
PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART1
1
The amount specified in column (2) below in respect of...
2
(1) The amounts specified in column (2) below in respect...
SCHEDULE 12
PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART4
SCHEDULE 13
PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART1
1
The weekly amounts specified in column (2) below in respect...
2
(1) The weekly amounts specified in column (2) below in...
SCHEDULE 14
PART IV OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PARTIV
SCHEDULE 15
PART IVB OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PARTIVB
SCHEDULE 16
APPLICABLE AMOUNTS SPECIFIED IN THE JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS
SCHEDULE 17
OTHER AMOUNTS SPECIFIED IN THE STATE PENSION CREDIT REGULATIONS
SCHEDULE 18
PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART 1
Prescribed amounts
1
The weekly amounts specified in column (2) in respect of...
SCHEDULE 19
PART 3 OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER
PART 3
Weekly amount of premiums specified in Part 2
SCHEDULE 20
APPLICABLE AMOUNTS SPECIFIED IN THE EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS
2011 No. 821

Social Security

Terms And Conditions Of Employment

The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2011
Made
16th March 2011
Coming into force in accordance with Article 1
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has made a review as required by section 150(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 and it appeared to the Secretary of State that the general level of prices was greater at the end of the period under review than it was at the beginning of the period.
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has also made a review as required by section 150A(1) of that Act and it appeared to the Secretary of State that the general level of earnings was greater at the end of the period under review than it was at the beginning of the period.
A draft of this Order was laid before Parliament in accordance with sections 150(2), 150A(2) and 190(1)(a) of that Act, and approved by a resolution of each House.
The Treasury has consented to the making of this Order.
Accordingly, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 150 , 150A, 151 and 189(1), (4) and (5) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 makes the following Order.
1992 c. 5 (“the Administration Act”). Section 150 was amended by paragraph 28 of Schedule 8 to the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48) (“the 1993 Act”), sections 2(3) and 9(4) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c. 18) (“the 1994 Act”), paragraph 64 of Schedule 2 to the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18) (“the 1995 Act”), section 131(2) of the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26), paragraph 24 of Schedule 12 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30) (“the 1999 Act”), paragraph 16 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16) (“the 2002 Act”), paragraph 35 of Schedule 3, and Schedule 6, to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21) (“the Tax Credits Act”), paragraph 14 of Schedule 7 to the Employment Act 2002 (c. 22), paragraph 21 of Schedule 11 to the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), section 6(1) to (4) of, and paragraph 21 of Schedule 1 to, the Pensions Act 2007 (c. 22), paragraph 10(21) of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), paragraph 8 of the Schedule to S.I. 2005/2053 and by article 2 of S.I. 2006/2839. See also section 4(8) of the 1994 Act and regulation 18(3) of S.I. 1995/310. The effect of section 150 was modified in relation to incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance by S.I. 2008/3270.
Section 150A was inserted by section 5(1) of the Pensions Act 2007.
See section 189(8) of the Administration Act.
The functions of the Secretary of State under section 150, so far as relating to child benefit and guardian’s allowance, were transferred to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue by section 50(1) of the Tax Credits Act. The functions of those Commissioners were transferred to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by section 5 of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11). Section 50 of that Act provides that in so far as appropriate in consequence of section 5 a reference to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue (in whatever terms) is to be read as a reference to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
Section 151 was amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 8 to the 1993 Act, section 130(2) of the Pensions Act 1995 and paragraph 22 of Schedule 11 to the Pensions Act 2004.
Section 189(1) was amended by paragraph 109 of Schedule 7, and Schedule 8, to the Social Security Act 1998 (“the 1998 Act”) (c. 14), paragraph 57 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2) and Schedule 6 to the Tax Credits Act.