
2015 No. 124
Social Security
Statutory Maternity Pay; Statutory Sick Pay; Employment; Housing; Rates
The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (revoked)
Approved by resolution of the Assembly on 27th April 2015
Made 5th March 2015
Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1
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PART 1 INTRODUCTION
Citation, commencement and effect
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Interpretation
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PART 2 SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS
Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act
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Rates or amounts of certain pensions and allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act
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Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Pension Schemes Act
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Dates on which sums specified for rates or amounts of benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act or the Pension Schemes Act are changed by this Order
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Earnings limits
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Statutory sick pay
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Statutory maternity pay
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Ordinary and additional statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay and statutory shared parental pay
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Graduated retirement benefit
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Disability living allowance
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Age addition to long-term incapacity benefit
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Transitional invalidity allowance in long-term incapacity benefit cases
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Bereavement benefits
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PART 3 INCOME SUPPORT AND HOUSING BENEFIT
Applicable amounts for income support
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Income support transitional protection
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Relevant sum for income support
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Housing benefit
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Housing benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for state pension credit
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PART 4 JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE
Age-related amounts of contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance
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Applicable amounts for jobseeker’s allowance
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Prescribed sum for jobseeker’s allowance
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PART 5 STATE PENSION CREDIT
State pension credit
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PART 6 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE
Applicable amounts for employment and support allowance
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PART 7 REVOCATION
Revocation
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SCHEDULE 1
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Article 3(1)
SCHEDULE 2
Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations as amended by this Order
Article 16(3)
PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES
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SCHEDULE 3
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Article 16(5)
SCHEDULE 4
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Article 16(7)
SCHEDULE 5
Part I of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit Regulations as amended by this Order
Article 19(5)
PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES
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SCHEDULE 6
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Article 19(7)
SCHEDULE 7
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Article 20(5)
SCHEDULE 8
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Article 20(7)
SCHEDULE 9
Part I of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations as amended by this Order
Article 22(3)
PART I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES
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SCHEDULE 10
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Article 22(5)
SCHEDULE 11
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Article 22(6)
SCHEDULE 12
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Article 22(8)
SCHEDULE 13
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Article 24(6)
SCHEDULE 14
Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations as amended by this Order
Article 25(2)
PART 1 PRESCRIBED AMOUNTS
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SCHEDULE 15
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Article 25(3)
SCHEDULE 16
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Article 25(6)