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Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 632

Social Security

Terms And Conditions Of Employment

The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2008

Made

6th March 2008

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1

ARRANGEMENT OF ARTICLES

Go to Preamble

  1. PART 1

    INTRODUCTION

    1. 1. Citation, commencement and effect

    2. 2. Interpretation

  2. PART 2

    SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS

    1. 3. Increase in 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. Dates on which sums specified for rates or amounts of benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act or the Pension Schemes Act are increased by this Order

    5. 7. Increase in rates of certain workmen’s compensation and industrial diseases benefits in respect of employment before 5th July 1948

    6. 8. Earnings Limits

    7. 9. Statutory Sick Pay

    8. 10. Statutory Maternity Pay

    9. 11. Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay

    10. 12. Increase in rate of graduated retirement benefit

    11. 13. Increase in rates of Disability Living Allowance

    12. 14. Increase in rates of age addition to long-term incapacity benefit

    13. 15. Increase in rates of transitional invalidity allowance in long-term incapacity benefit cases

  3. PART 3

    INCOME SUPPORT, HOUSING BENEFIT AND COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT

    1. 16. Applicable amounts for Income Support

    2. 17. Income Support Transitional Protection

    3. 18. The Relevant Sum for Income Support

    4. 19. Housing Benefit

    5. 20. Housing Benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for State Pension Credit

    6. 21. Council Tax Benefit

    7. 22. Council Tax Benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for State Pension Credit

  4. PART 4

    JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE

    1. 23. Increase in age-related amounts of contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance

    2. 24. Applicable amounts for Jobseeker’s Allowance

    3. 25. The Prescribed Sum for Jobseeker’s Allowance

  5. PART 5

    STATE PENSION CREDIT

    1. 26. State Pension Credit

  6. PART 6

    REVOCATION

    1. 27. Revocation

    1. SCHEDULE 1

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

    2. SCHEDULE 2

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

    3. SCHEDULE 3

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

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      INCOME SUPPORT: APPLICABLE AMOUNTS IN SPECIAL CASES

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      OTHER APPLICABLE AMOUNTS SPECIFIED IN THE INCOME SUPPORT REGULATIONS

    6. SCHEDULE 6

      PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    7. SCHEDULE 7

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

    8. SCHEDULE 8

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

    9. SCHEDULE 9

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

    10. SCHEDULE 10

      PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    11. SCHEDULE 11

      PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    12. SCHEDULE 12

      PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    13. SCHEDULE 13

      PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

    14. SCHEDULE 14

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

    15. SCHEDULE 15

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

    16. SCHEDULE 16

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

    17. SCHEDULE 17

      JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE: APPLICABLE AMOUNTS IN SPECIAL CASES

    18. SCHEDULE 18

      JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE: APPLICABLE AMOUNTS OF JOINT-CLAIM COUPLES IN SPECIAL CASES

    19. SCHEDULE 19

      OTHER APPLICABLE AMOUNTS SPECIFIED IN THE JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS

    20. SCHEDULE 20

      OTHER AMOUNTS SPECIFIED IN THE STATE PENSION CREDIT REGULATIONS

Go to Explanatory Note

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(1) and it appeared to him 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(2) and it appeared to him 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(3) 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(4), 150A, 151(5) and 189(1), (4) and (5)(6) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 makes the following Order.

(1)

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 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. Back [1]

(2)

Section 150A was inserted by section 5(1) of the Pensions Act 2007. Back [2]

(3)

See section 189(8) of the Administration Act. Back [3]

(4)

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. Back [4]

(5)

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. Back [5]

(6)

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. Back [6]

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