2025 No. 295

SOCIAL SECURITY

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2025 (revoked)^F1

Made12th March 2025

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(3) and (4)

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^F1Part 1 INTRODUCTION¶

^F11 Citation, extent, commencement and effect¶

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^F12 Interpretation¶

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^F1Part 2 SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS¶

^F13 Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act¶

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^F14 Increase in rates or amounts of certain pensions and allowances under the Contributions and Benefits Act¶

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^F15 Increase in rates or amount of certain benefits under the Pension Schemes Act¶

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^F16 Increase in rates or amounts of certain pensions under Part 1 of the Pensions Act¶

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^F17 Dates on which sums specified for rates or amounts of benefits in articles 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13 are changed by this Order¶

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^F18 Statutory Sick Pay¶

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^F19 Statutory Maternity Pay¶

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^F110 Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay, Statutory Shared Parental Pay and Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay¶

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^F111 Increase in rate of graduated retirement benefit¶

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^F112 Increase in amount of Category C retirement pension under the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979¶

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^F113 Maximum additional pension¶

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^F114 Increase in rates of Disability Living Allowance¶

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^F115 Increase in rates of Personal Independence Payment¶

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^F116 Rates of age addition¶

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^F117 Rates of transitional invalidity allowance¶

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^F118 Rates of bereavement benefits¶

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^F119 Rates of bereavement support payment¶

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^F1Part 3 INCOME SUPPORT AND HOUSING BENEFIT¶

^F120 Applicable amounts for Income Support¶

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^F121 Income Support Transitional Protection¶

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^F122 The relevant sum for Income Support¶

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^F123 Housing Benefit¶

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^F124 Housing Benefit for certain persons over the qualifying age for State Pension Credit¶

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^F1Part 4 JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE¶

^F125 Increase in age-related amounts of contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance¶

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^F126 Applicable amounts for Jobseeker’s Allowance¶

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^F127 The prescribed sum for the JSA Regulations 1996¶

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^F128 Amounts for the JSA Regulations 2013¶

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^F1Part 5 STATE PENSION CREDIT¶

^F129 State Pension Credit¶

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^F1Part 6 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE¶

^F130 Applicable amounts for the ESA Regulations 2008¶

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^F131 Prescribed amount for the ESA Regulations 2013¶

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^F1Part 7 UNIVERSAL CREDIT¶

^F132 Universal Credit¶

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^F133 Amendment of the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014¶

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^F1Part 8 REVOCATION¶

^F134 Revocation¶

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^F1Schedule 1 ¶

PROVISIONS OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 3(1)

^F1Part I CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS¶

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^F1Part III NON-CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS¶

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^F1Part IV INCREASES FOR DEPENDANTS¶

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^F1Part V RATES OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT¶

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^F1Schedule 2 ¶

PARAGRAPH 1 OF PART I OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE INCOME SUPPORT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 20(3)

^F1Part I PERSONAL ALLOWANCES¶

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^F1Schedule 3 ¶

PART IV OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE INCOME SUPPORT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 20(5)

^F1Part IV WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF PREMIUMS SPECIFIED IN PART III¶

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^F1Schedule 4 ¶

PARAGRAPH 1 OF PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 23(6)

^F1Part 1 Personal Allowances¶

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^F1Schedule 5 ¶

PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 23(8)

^F1Part 4 Amounts of premiums specified in Part 3¶

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^F1Schedule 6 ¶

PARAGRAPH 1 OF PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 24(6)

^F1Part 1 Personal Allowances¶

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^F1Schedule 7 ¶

PART 4 OF SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HOUSING BENEFIT (SPC) REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 24(8)

^F1Part 4 Amounts of premiums specified in Part 3¶

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^F1Schedule 8 ¶

PARAGRAPH 1 OF PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE JSA REGULATIONS 1996 AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 26(3)

^F1Part 1 Personal Allowances¶

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PART IV OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE JSA REGULATIONS 1996 AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 26(5)

^F1Part Iv Weekly amounts of premiums specified in Part III¶

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^F1Schedule 10 ¶

PART IVB OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE JSA REGULATIONS 1996 AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 26(6)

^F1Part Ivb Weekly amounts of premiums specified in Part IVA¶

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PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE ESA REGULATIONS 2008 AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 30

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^F1Schedule 12 ¶

PART 3 OF SCHEDULE 4 TO THE ESA REGULATIONS 2008 AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 30

^F1Part 3 Weekly amount of premiums specified in Part 2¶

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^F1Schedule 13 ¶

AMOUNTS OF ELEMENTS SPECIFIED IN THE TABLE IN REGULATION 36 OF THE UNIVERSAL CREDIT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Article 32(2)

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Footnotes

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Order revoked (5.5.2026) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/148), arts. 1(3)(o), 34