Statutory Rules 1999 No. 50

      The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 1999


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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND


1999 No. 50

SOCIAL SECURITY

STATUTORY MATERNITY PAY; STATUTORY SICK PAY; HOUSING; RATES

The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

  Made 9th February 1999 
  Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1(1)


ARRANGEMENT OF ARTICLES


Part I

Introduction
1. Citation and commencement
2. Interpretation

Part II

Social Security Benefits and Pensions
3. Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act
4. Rates or amounts of certain pensions or allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act
5. Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Pension Schemes Act
6. Dates on which sums specified for rates or amounts of benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act or the Pension Schemes Act are increased by this Order
7. Workmen's compensation
8. Earnings limits
9. Statutory sick pay
10. Statutory maternity pay
11. Graduated retirement benefit
12. Disability living allowance
13. Child benefit
14. Age addition to long-term incapacity benefit
15. Transitional invalidity allowance in long-term incapacity benefit cases

Part III

Family Credit, Disability Working Allowance, Income Support and Housing Benefit
16. Family credit
17. Disability working allowance
18. Applicable amounts for income support
19. Income support transitional protection
20. Relevant sum for income support
21. Housing benefit

Part IV

Jobseeker's Allowance
22. Age-related amounts of contribution-based jobseeker's allowance
23. Applicable amounts for jobseeker's allowance
24. Prescribed sum for jobseeker's allowance

Part V

Transitional Provisions and Revocations
25. Transitional provisions
26. Revocations

SCHEDULES

  SCHEDULE 1 Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act as amended by this Order

  SCHEDULE 2 Schedule 4 to the Family Credit Regulations as amended by this Order

  SCHEDULE 3 Schedule 5 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations as amended by this Order

  SCHEDULE 4 Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations as amended by this Order

  SCHEDULE 5 Part IV of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations as amended by this Order

  SCHEDULE 6 Income support: applicable amounts of persons in homes for persons in need and nursing homes

  SCHEDULE 7 Income support: applicable amounts in special cases

  SCHEDULE 8 Other applicable amounts specified in the Income Support Regulations

  SCHEDULE 9 Part I of Schedule 2 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

  SCHEDULE 10 Part IV of Schedule 2 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order

  SCHEDULE 11 Part I of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations as amended by this Order

  SCHEDULE 12 Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations as amended by this Order

  SCHEDULE 13 Jobseeker's allowance: applicable amounts of persons in residential care and nursing homes

  SCHEDULE 14 Jobseeker's allowance: applicable amounts in special cases

  SCHEDULE 15 Other applicable amounts specified in the Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations

 Explanatory Note
 
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