The Social Security Up-rating (Scotland) Order 2024

Rates of industrial injuries benefit and date on which changes take effect

6.—(1) The sums specified in Part V (rates of industrial injuries benefit) of schedule 4 (rates of benefits, etc) of the 1992 Act(1) are amended so that Part V has effect as set out in the schedule of this Order.

(2) The increases made by paragraph (1) take effect on 8 April 2024 except those set out in the following entries in the schedule which take effect on 10 April 2024—

(a) entry 1 (the weekly rates of disablement pension),

(b) entry 4 (the maximum of aggregate of weekly benefit payable for successive accidents under section 107(1) of the 1992 Act),

(c) entries 7, 8 and 12 (increases in disablement pension and industrial death benefit in respect of dependants),

(d) entry 9 (the maximum disablement gratuity under paragraph 9(2) of schedule 7 of the 1992 Act),

(e) entries 10 and 11 (the weekly rates of industrial death benefit by way of widow’s and widower’s pension).

(1)

Part V of schedule 4 was relevantly amended by section 65(2) and (3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), paragraph 15(3) of schedule 1 of the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c. 6) and S.S.I. 2023/110.