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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-2021/schedule-1/part-V",
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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": "schedule/1/part/V",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "V",
  "heading": "RATES OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT",
  "text": "Description of benefit, etc.\nRate\n1.\nDisablement pension (weekly rates).\nFor the several degrees of disablement set out in column (1) of the following Table, the respective amounts in column (2) of that Table.\nTABLE\nDegree of Disablement\nAmount\n(1)\n(2)\nPer cent.\n£\n100\n182.90\n90\n164.61\n80\n146.32\n70\n128.03\n60\n109.74\n50\n91.45\n40\n73.16\n30\n54.87\n20\n36.58\n2.\nMaximum increase of weekly rate of disablement pension where constant attendance needed.\n(a)\nexcept in cases of exceptionally severe disablement\n£73.20;\n(b)\nin any case\n£146.40.\n3.\nIncrease of weekly rate of disablement pension (exceptionally severe disablement).\n£73.20.\n4.\nMaximum of aggregate of weekly benefit payable for successive accidents.\n£182.90.\n5.\nUnemployability supplement under paragraph 2 of Schedule 7.\n£113.10.\n6.\nIncrease under paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 of weekly rate of unemployability supplement.\n(a)\nif on the qualifying date the beneficiary was under the age of 35 or if that date fell before 5th July 1948\n£23.40\n(b)\nif head (a) above does not apply and on the qualifying date the beneficiary was under the age of 40 and he had not attained pensionable age before 6th April 1979\n£23.40\n(c)\nif heads (a) and (b) above do not apply and on the qualifying date the beneficiary was under the age of 45\n£15.00\n(d)\nif heads (a), (b) and (c) above do not apply and on the qualifying date the beneficiary was under the age of 50 and had not attained pensionable age before 6th April 1979\n£15.00\n(e)\nin any other case\n£7.50.\n7.\nIncrease under paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 of weekly rate of disablement pension.\n£11.35.\n8.\nIncrease under paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 of weekly rate of disablement pension.\n£67.60.\n9.\nMaximum disablement gratuity under\nparagraph 9 of Schedule 7.\n£12,140.00.\n10.\nWidow’s pension (weekly rates).\n(b)\nhigher permanent rate\n£137.60;\n(c)\nlower permanent rate\n30 per cent of the first sum specified in section 44(4) (Category A basic retirement pension)\n(the appropriate rate being determined in accordance with paragraph 16 of Schedule 7)\n11.\nWidower’s pension (weekly rate).\n£137.60.\n12.\nWeekly rate of allowance in respect of children and qualifying young persons under paragraph 18 of Schedule 7.\nIn respect of each child or qualifying young person\n£11.35.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "This entry was amended by section 65(2) of the 2012 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "This entry was amended by section 65(3) of the 2012 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Widow’s and widower’s pension are payable in relation only to deaths occurring before 11th April 1988 (paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 7 to the Contributions and Benefits Act). Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2020/234."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Paragraph 12 was amended by paragraph 15(3) of Schedule 1 to the 2005 Act which inserted the words “and qualifying young persons” and substituted the words “child or qualifying young person”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348219128/schedule/1/part/V",
    "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."
}