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The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1996

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Applicable amounts for Income Support

18.—(1) As from 8th April 1996 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 the Schedules thereto; and for this purpose references in this article to a numbered regulation or Schedule are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to the regulations of, or Schedules 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) The sums specified in Part I of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts: personal allowances) shall be increased; and those paragraphs in that Part of Schedule 2 where such a sum is specified shall have effect as set out in Schedule 4 to this Order.

(4) In paragraph 3 of Part II of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts: family premium) for the sum of £10.25 there shall be substituted the sum of £10.55.

(5) 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.

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

(a)in sub-paragraph (a) for the sum of £30.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £32.00; and

(b)in sub-paragraph (b) for the sum of £5.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £6.00.

(7) In paragraph 18(2) of Schedule 3 (non-dependant deductions)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (a) for the sum of £74.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £76.00;

(b)in sub-paragraph (b) for the sums £74.00, £111.00 and £10.00 there shall be substituted the sums £76.00, £114.00 and £12.00 respectively; and

(c)in sub-paragraph (c) for the sums £111.00, £145.00 and £14.00 there shall be substituted the sums £114.00, £150.00 and £16.00 respectively.

(8) In paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 4, for the sum of £227.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £234.00 and those sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount which are specified in Schedule 4 (applicable amounts of persons in residential care and nursing homes) shall be increased; and those paragraphs in Schedule 4 where such a sum is specified shall have effect as set out in Part I of Schedule 6 to this Order.

(9) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (8) of this article, the sums specified in Schedule 4 are those set out in Part II of 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 increased; and those paragraphs in Schedule 7 where such a sum is specified shall have effect as set out in Part I of Schedule 7 to this Order.

(11) Except as provided in paragraph (10) above, the sums specified in Schedule 7 are those set out in Part II of Schedule 7 to this Order.

(12) 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.

(13) In paragraph 19(b)(2) of Schedule 9 (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.

(1)

Schedule 3 was substituted by S.I. 1995/1613 and Amended by S.I. 1995/2927.

(2)

Paragraph 19 was substituted by S.I. 1994/527, regulation 9(3).

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