This Order may be cited as the Social Security Benefits Up-rating (No. 2) Order 2000.

In so far as article 19(8) of this Order amends paragraph 15(1A) of Part IV of Schedule 2 to the Housing Benefit Regulations, it shall come into force on 9th April 2001, immediately after the coming into force of regulation 4 of the Social Security Amendment (Bereavement Benefits) Regulations 20004.

In so far as article 20(7) of this Order amends paragraph 19(1A) of Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Council Tax Benefit Regulations, it shall come into force on 9th April 2001, immediately after the coming into force of regulation 5 of the Social Security Amendment (Bereavement Benefits) Regulations 2000.

In so far as article 3(1) of this Order relates to bereavement payment (as referred to in Part II of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act) and to the rate of widowed parent’s allowance (as referred to in Part IV of Schedule 4 to that Act), it shall come into force immediately after the coming into force of section 54(2) of, and paragraph 14 of Schedule 8 to, the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 199912.

The sums specified in paragraph (2) below shall be increased from and including the respective dates specified in article 6 below so as to have effect as set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.

The sums mentioned in paragraph (1) above are the sums specified in Parts I, III, IV and V of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act (contributory periodical benefits, non-contributory periodical benefits, increases for dependants and rates of industrial injuries benefit), except in Part III the sum specified for age addition to a pension of any category, and otherwise under section 79 of that Act.

The sums specified in paragraphs (2), (3), (4) and (5) below shall be increased from and including the respective dates specified in article 6 below.

The sums falling to be calculated under paragraph 13(4) of Schedule 7 to the Contributions and Benefits Act (calculation of weekly rate of a beneficiary’s retirement allowance) shall be increased by 3.3 per cent. of their amount apart from this Order.

The sums which are shared additional pensions26, and the sums which are increases in the rates of shared additional pensions under section 55C of the Contributions and Benefits Act27, shall be increased by 3.3 per cent. of their amounts apart from this Order.

It is hereby directed28 that the sums specified in paragraph (2) below shall be increased from and including the respective dates specified in article 6 below.

Sums which are payable by virtue of section 15(1) of the Pension Schemes Act (which provides for increases in a person’s guaranteed minimum pension if payment of his occupational pension is postponed after he attains pensionable age) to a person who is also entitled to a Category A or Category B retirement pension (including sums payable by virtue of section 17(2) and (3) of that Act), shall be increased by 3.3 per cent. of their amount apart from this Order where the increase under section 15(1) is attributable to earnings factors for the tax year 1987–88 and earlier tax years29.

Paragraphs (2) to (9) of this article, which are subject to the provisions of paragraphs (10) and (11) below, specify the date on which the increases made by this Order in the sums specified for rates or amounts of benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act or the Pension Schemes Act shall take effect for each case.

Subject to paragraph (3) below, the increases in the sums mentioned in articles 3, 4 and 11 of this Order for Category A and Category B retirement pension and graduated retirement benefit together with, where appropriate, increases for dependants, shall take effect on 9th April 2001.

In the case of a person over pensionable age whose entitlement to a Category A retirement pension is deferred and for whom the rate of short-term incapacity benefit falls to be calculated in accordance with section 30B(3) of the Contributions and Benefits Act30, the increases in the sums mentioned in articles 3, 4 and 11 of this Order for Category A and Category B retirement pension and graduated retirement benefit together with, where appropriate, increases for dependants, shall take effect on 12th April 2001.

The increases in the sums mentioned in articles 4(4)(c) and (5) and 5(2) shall take effect on 9th April 2001.

The increases in the sums specified for the rate of maternity allowance, widowed mother’s allowance, widow’s pension, Category C and Category D retirement pension, child’s special allowance31, attendance allowance, invalid care allowance (except in a case where the Secretary of State has made arrangements for it to be paid on a Wednesday), together with, in each case where appropriate, increases for dependants, and guardian’s allowance shall in all cases take effect on 9th April 2001.

The increases in the sums specified for the rate of invalid care allowance in a case where the Secretary of State has made arrangements for it to be paid on a Wednesday together with, where appropriate, increases for dependants, disablement benefit together with increases of disablement pension, maximum disablement gratuity under paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 7 to the Contributions and Benefits Act, industrial death benefit by way of widow’s and widower’s pension and allowance in respect of children together with, where appropriate, increases for dependants, and the maximum of the aggregate of weekly benefit payable for successive accidents, under section 107(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act, shall in all cases take effect on 11th April 2001.

In any case where a person’s weekly rate of Category A or Category B retirement pension falls to be increased under the provisions of section 47(1) or 48C(2) of the Contributions and Benefits Act32 by reference to the weekly rate of invalidity allowance or age addition to long-term incapacity benefit to which he was previously entitled, the increase in such sum shall take effect on 9th April 2001.

The increases in the sums specified for the rate of incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance (together with, where appropriate, increases for dependants) shall take effect in all cases on 12th April 2001.

The increases in the sums falling to be calculated in accordance with paragraph 13(4) of Schedule 7 to the Contributions and Benefits Act (retirement allowance) shall take effect on 11th April 2001.

In the case of a person who is subject to the provisions of regulations made under section 73(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 199233 (adjustment of benefit for persons undergoing medical or other treatment as an in-patient in a hospital) the increase in the sum mentioned in article 4(3)(b) of this Order shall take effect in that case on the day on which the increase in the benefit payable to him apart from those regulations takes effect.

In the National Insurance Act 196536 the sum of 8.77 pence referred to in section 36(1) (graduated retirement benefit) shall be increased by 3.3 per cent.; and from and including 9th April 2001 the reference in that provision to that sum shall have effect as a reference to 9.06 pence.

The sums which are the increases of graduated retirement benefit under Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) (No. 2) Regulations 197837 (increases for deferred retirement) shall be increased by 3.3 per cent. of their amount apart from this Order.

The sums which are the additions under section 37(1) of the National Insurance Act 1965 (additions for widows and widowers) shall be increased by 3.3 per cent. of their amount apart from this Order.

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 2 to 6 to this Order; and for this purpose references in this article to a numbered regulation or Schedule are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to a regulation of, or a Schedule to, the Income Support Regulations bearing that number.

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 paragraphs 13A(2)(a) and 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.

The sums specified in Part I of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts: personal allowances) shall be as set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.

The sums specified in Part IV of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts: weekly amounts of premiums) shall be as set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.

In paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 4, for the sum of £256.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £261.00 and, subject to paragraph (2) of this article, those other 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 as set out in Schedule 4 to this Order.

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 5 to this Order.

The sums specified in any provision of the Income Support Regulations set out in column (1) of Schedule 6 to this Order are the sums set out in column (2) of that Schedule.

The sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount as specified in the Housing Benefit Regulations shall be the sums set out in the following provisions of this article and Schedules 7 and 8 to this Order; and for this purpose references in this article to a numbered regulation or Schedule are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to a regulation of, or a Schedule to, the Housing Benefit Regulations bearing that number.

In regulations 16(b), 17(c) and paragraphs 13A(2)(a) and 14(a) of Part III of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts), the sum specified is in each case £3,000.

In paragraph 1A of Part I of Schedule 148 (ineligible service charges), for the sums of £18.65, £18.65, £9.40, £12.40, £12.40, £6.25 and £2.25 there shall be substituted the sums of £18.95, £18.95, £9.55, £12.60, £12.60, £6.35 and £2.30 respectively.

The sums specified in Part I of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts: personal allowances) shall be as set out in Schedule 7 to this Order.

The sums specified in Part IV of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts: premiums) shall be as set out in Schedule 8 to this Order.

The sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount as specified in the Council Tax Benefit Regulations shall be the sums set out in the following provisions of this article and Schedules 9 and 10 to this Order; and for this purpose references in this article to a numbered regulation or Schedule are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to a regulation of, or a Schedule to, the Council Tax Benefit Regulations bearing that number.

In regulations 8(b), 9(c) and paragraphs 14A(2)(a) and 15(a) of Part III of Schedule 1 (applicable amounts), the sum specified is in each case £3,000.

The sums specified in Part I of Schedule 1 (applicable amounts: personal allowances) shall be as set out in Schedule 9 to this Order.

The sums specified in Part IV of Schedule 1 (applicable amounts: premiums) shall be as set out in Schedule 10 to this Order.

The sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount as specified in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations shall be the sums set out in the following provisions of this article and Schedules 11 to 18 to this Order; and for this purpose references in this article to a numbered regulation or Schedule are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to a regulation of, or a Schedule to, the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations bearing that number.

In regulations 83(b), 84(1)(c), 85(1) and 148(1)(a)(ii), (b)(ii) and (iii), (c)(ii) and (d)(i), in paragraphs 15A(2)(a) and 16(a) of Part III of Schedule 1, and in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 4, the sum specified is in each case £3,000.

The sums specified in Part I of Schedule 1 (applicable amounts: personal allowances) shall be as set out in Schedule 11 to this Order.

The sums specified in Part IV of Schedule 1 (applicable amounts: weekly amounts of premiums) shall be as set out in Schedule 12 to this Order.

The sums specified in Part IVB of Schedule 154 (applicable amounts: weekly amounts of premiums for joint-claim couples) shall be as set out in Schedule 13 to this Order.

Subject to paragraph (2) of this article, 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 as set out in Schedule 14 to this Order.

Subject to paragraph (2) of this article, those sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount which are specified in Schedule 4A56 (applicable amounts of a joint-claim couple where a member is in a residential care or nursing home) shall be as set out in Schedule 15 to this Order.

Those sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount which are specified in Schedule 5 (applicable amounts in special cases) shall be as set out in Schedule 16 to this Order.

Those sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount which are specified in Schedule 5A57 (applicable amounts of joint-claim couples in special cases) shall be as set out in Schedule 17 to this Order.

The sums specified in any provision of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations set out in column (1) of Schedule 18 to this Order are the sums set out in column (2) of that Schedule.