# Social Security Act 1998, Section 68: Rates of short-term incapacity benefit


For subsection (4) of section 44 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (Category A retirement pension) there shall be substituted the following subsection—
“(4) The weekly rate of the basic pension shall be £64.70 except that, so far as the sum is relevant for the purpose of calculating the lower rate of short-term incapacity benefit under section 30B(3) above, it shall be £62.05.
In this subsection “the lower rate” means the rate payable for the first 196 days of entitlement in any period of incapacity for work.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/14/section/68 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1998/section-68
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