{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-2021/article-17",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348219128",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-2021",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Rates of age addition",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), in regulation 10(2) of the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations 1994 (increase in rate of incapacity benefit where beneficiary is under prescribed age on the qualifying date)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a) for “£23.30” substitute “£23.40”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (b) for “£11.70” substitute “£11.75”.\n(2) In the case of a claimant entitled to long-term incapacity benefit who was subject to regulation 2(3) of the Employment and Support Allowance (Up-rating Modification) (Transitional) Regulations 2008 the sums specified in regulation 10(2)(a) and (b) of the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations 1994 shall be increased to “£12.15” and “£6.75” respectively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/2946; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2020/234."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/3270."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348219128/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:47:58.768573+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}