The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1996

Disability Working Allowance

17.  In the Disability Working Allowance Regulations—

(a)in regulation 15(1)(c)(1), for the sum of £40 there shall be substituted the sum of £60;

(b)in regulation 51(4) (determination of appropriate maximum disability working allowance), the capital sum prescribed is £3,000;

(c)in regulation 51 (4), (5) and (6), the amount specified for the allowance in respect of a child or young person is NIL;

(d)in regulation 52(1) (applicable amount)—

(i)in sub-paragraph (a), for the sum of £54.75 there shall be substituted the sum of £56.40;

(ii)in sub-paragraph (b), for the sum of £73.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £75.20; and

(e)in paragraph 19(b)(2) of Schedule 3 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings), for the sum of £9.20 there shall be substituted the sum of £9.25; and

(f)in Schedule 5 (determination of appropriate maximum disability working allowance) the sums prescribed shall be increased so as to have effect as set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.

(1)

Sub-paragraph (c) was inserted by S.I. 1994/1924, regulation 3(3)(b).

(2)

Paragraph 19 was substituted by S.I. 1994/527, regulation 28(2).