{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/section-124",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/section-124.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/14",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975",
  "path": "section/124",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "124",
  "heading": "Power to increase rates of benefit",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by order increase any of the sums specified in—\n(a) Schedule 4 to this Act;\n(b) Schedule 6 to this Act, paragraphs 3(1)(a)(i) and (ii) (calculation of earnings-related supplement and addition) ; and\n(c) sections 2(6)(c) and 7(2)(b) of the Old Cases Act;\n(d) sections 30(1) and (2), 45(3) and (4), 66(4) and (5) of this Act (earnings rules).\n(2) No order shall be made under this section unless a draft of it has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.\n(3) The Secretary of State shall lay with any draft order under this section a copy of a report by the Government Actuary giving the latter's opinion on the likely effect on the National Insurance Fund of the making of the order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/14/section/124",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:40:38.067895+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."
}