The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

Applicable amounts for income support

18.—(1) The sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount as specified in the Income Support Regulations shall be the sums set out in the following provisions of this Article and Schedules 4 to 8 to this Order; and for this purpose a reference in this Article to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation of, or Schedule to, the Income Support Regulations bearing that number.

(2) In regulations 17(1)(b), 18(1)(c), 21(1) and 71(1)(a)(ii), (b)(ii) and (iii), (c)(ii) and (d)(i), in paragraph 14(a) of Part III of Schedule 2 and in paragraph 1(2) of Part I of Schedule 4, the sum specified is in each case £3,000.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the sums specified in Part I of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts: personal allowances) shall be as set out in Schedule 4 to this Order.

(4) In paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 as it has effect by virtue of regulation 10(1) of the Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons Regulations (transitional provisions)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (b) for “£24·10” there shall be substituted “£24·75”;

(b)in sub-paragraph (c) for “£28·85” there shall be substituted “£29·60”; and

(c)in sub-paragraph (d) for “£37·90” there shall be substituted “£38·90”.

(5) In paragraph 3 of Part II of Schedule 2(1) (applicable amounts: family premium)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (a) the sum specified is £15·75; and

(b)in sub-paragraph (b) for “£10·55” there shall be substituted “£10·80”.

(6) The sums specified in Part IV of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts: weekly amounts of premiums) shall be as set out in Schedule 5 to this Order.

(7) In paragraph 18(1) of Schedule 3(2) (housing costs: non-dependant deductions)—

(a)in head (a) for “£32·00” there shall be substituted “£33·00”; and

(b)in head (b) for “£6·00” there shall be substituted “£7·00”.

(8) In paragraph 18(2) of Schedule 3—

(a)in head (a) for “£76·00” there shall be substituted “£78·00”;

(b)in head (b) for “£76·00”, “£114·00” and “£12·00” there shall be substituted “£78·00”, “£116·00” and “£13·00” respectively; and

(c)in head (c) for “£114·00”, “£150·00” and “£16·00” there shall be substituted “£116·00”, “£152·00” and “£17·00” respectively.

(9) In paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 4 (applicable amounts of persons in homes for persons in need and nursing homes) for “£234·00” there shall be substituted “£240·00” and, subject to paragraph (2), those other sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount which are specified in that Schedule shall be as set out in Schedule 6 to this Order.

(10) Those sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount which are specified in Schedule 7 (applicable amounts in special cases) shall be as set out in Schedule 7 to this Order.

(11) The sums specified in any provision of the Income Support Regulations set out in column (1) of Schedule 8 to this Order are the sums set out in column (2) of that Schedule.