{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-1996/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-1996/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/599",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-1996",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Disability Working Allowance",
  "text": "In the Disability Working Allowance Regulations—\n(a) in regulation 15(1)(c), for the sum of £40 there shall be substituted the sum of £60;\n(b) in regulation 51(4) (determination of appropriate maximum disability working allowance), the capital sum prescribed is £3,000;\n(c) in regulation 51 (4), (5) and (6), the amount specified for the allowance in respect of a child or young person is NIL;\n(d) in regulation 52(1) (applicable amount)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a), for the sum of £54.75 there shall be substituted the sum of £56.40;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), for the sum of £73.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £75.20; and\n(e) in paragraph 19(b) of Schedule 3 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings), for the sum of £9.20 there shall be substituted the sum of £9.25; and\n(f) in Schedule 5 (determination of appropriate maximum disability working allowance) the sums prescribed shall be increased so as to have effect as set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (c) was inserted by S.I. 1994/1924, regulation 3(3)(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 19 was substituted by S.I. 1994/527, regulation 28(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/599/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:49:49.462825+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."
}