# Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013

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# Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013

# 2013 CHAPTER 16

An Act to make provision relating to the up-rating of certain social security benefits and tax credits.

[26th March 2013]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,                           in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—                        

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## 2Up-rating of tax credits for tax years 2014-15 and 2015-16U.K.

(1)The Treasury must, in each of the tax years ending with 5 April 2014 and 5 April 2015, make an order by statutory instrument                        increasing each of the relevant amounts by 1%.                  

For the meaning of the “relevant amounts” see paragraph 2 of the Schedule.

(2)An order under this section must be framed so that it has effect in relation to awards of tax credits for the tax year following                        that in which the order is made.                  

(3)The Treasury may, in providing for an increase under subsection (1), adjust the amount of the increase so as to round any                        amount up or down to the extent the Treasury think appropriate.                  

(4)Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a tax year if, on the review in that tax year under section 41 of the Tax Credits                        Act 2002, the Treasury determine that the general level of prices in the United Kingdom has not increased, or has increased                        by less than 1%, over the period under review.                  

(5)Where subsection (1) applies in relation to a tax year, the Treasury must not exercise any other power to vary any of the                        relevant amounts if that variation would take effect in relation to awards of tax credits for the tax year following that                        in which the order is made.                  

## 3Short title, interpretation, commencement and extentU.K.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013.                  

(2)In this Act “tax year” means a period beginning with 6 April in one year and ending with 5 April in the next.                  

(3)This section comes into force on the day on which this Act is passed.                  

(4)The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Secretary of State or the Treasury may by order made by                        statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed for different purposes.                  

(5)Section 1(1) to (7) and paragraph 1 of the Schedule extend to England and Wales and Scotland only.                  

(6)Section 1(9) extends to Northern Ireland only.                  

(7)The other provisions of this Act extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.                  

 Sections 1 and 2

## SCHEDULEU.K.Meaning of the “relevant sums” and the “relevant amounts”

### The “relevant sums” for the purposes of section 1E+W+S

1E+W+SThe “relevant sums” for the purposes of section 1 are the sums—

(a)specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967);

(b)specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/213);

(c)mentioned in section 150(1)(i) and (j) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992;

(d)specified in regulations under section 4(2) of the Jobseekers Act 1995;

(e)specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207);

(f)specified in regulations under section 2(1)(a) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007;

(g)specified in regulations under section 2(4)(c) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007, so far as relating to the component under section                        2(3) of that Act;

(h)specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/794);

(i)specified in regulations under section 4(6)(c) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007, so far as relating to the component under section                        4(5) of that Act;

(j)specified in regulations under section 9(2) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012;

(k)specified in regulations under section 10(3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 in respect of an amount to be included under section                        10(2) of that Act (but where more than one sum is so specified, only the smaller or smallest of those sums is a “relevant                        sum”);

(l)specified in regulations under section 12(3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 in respect of needs or circumstances of a claimant                        prescribed by virtue of section 12(2)(a) of that Act (but not in respect of needs or circumstances prescribed by virtue of                        section 12(2)(b)).

### The “relevant amounts” for the purposes of section 2U.K.

2U.K.The “relevant amounts” for the purposes of section 2 are the monetary amounts—

(a)specified in Schedule 2 to the Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2005) for the                        basic element, the 30 hour element, the second adult element and the lone parent element;

(b)specified in regulation 7(4)(c) and (f) of the Child Tax Credit Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2007).