Social Security and Pensions — 7 Feb 2022 at 19:17

The majority of MPs voted to increase a wide range of benefits, payments and pensions by 3.1%, in-line with an increase in prices.

The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:

• That the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022, which was laid before this House on 17 January, be approved.

The order increases a wide range of benefits, payments and pensions by 3.1%, in-line with an increase in prices, as determined by the Consumer Prices Index.

The benefits, pensions and payments affected include^[1]:

• * The basic State Pension
• * The full rate of the new State Pension
• * The Pension Credit Standard Minimum Guarantee and
• * The widows’ and widowers’ benefits in Industrial Death Benefit
• * The personal or standard allowances of Universal Credit, Income Support, Housing Benefit, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance
• * The disability, carer, pensioner and family/lone parent premiums
• * Statutory Adoption Pay, Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Shared Parental Pay and Statutory Sick Pay.
• * Attendance Allowance
• * Carer’s Allowance
• * Disability Living Allowance
• * Graduated Retirement Benefit
• * Incapacity Benefit
• * increments to State Pension
• * Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
• * Personal Independence Payment
• * Severe Disablement Allowance
• * Widowed Mother’s Allowance
• * Widowed Parent’s Allowance
• * Transitional amounts of the State Pension above the level of the full rate, and inherited increments of old State Pension payable to a surviving spouse or civil partner in the new State Pension
• * Employment and Support Allowance, Housing Benefit, Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Credit personal or standard allowances
• * Additional amounts in Pension Credit payable on grounds of disability and caring responsibilities
• * Carer and disability premiums, in the legacy benefits and the carer element and limited capability for work elements in Universal Credit

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• [1] Explanatory notes to the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022, Legislation.gov.uk

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