{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-2026/schedule-1/part-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-2026/schedule-1/part-I.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2026/59",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "CONTRIBUTORY PERIODICAL BENEFITS",
  "text": "Description of benefit\nWeekly rate\n2.\nShort-term incapacity benefit.\n(a) lower rate\n£110.70\n(b) higher rate\n£130.90\n2A.\nLong-term incapacity benefit.\n£146.60\n5.\nCategory B retirement pension where section 48A(4) or 48AA(4) applies.\n£110.75",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraphs 2 and 2A were substituted for paragraph 2 by Article 4(2) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 5 was amended by paragraph 18(11) of Schedule 2 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)) and paragraph 59 of Schedule 12 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5 (N.I.))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/59/schedule/1/part/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:23:56.777675+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."
}