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Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2008.

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A decision made (24/09/2008) regarding: Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2008.

Decision Reference:  MD-S-2008-0058

Decision Summary Title :

DS - Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2008

Date of Decision Summary:

September 2008

Decision Summary Author:

Sue Duhamel

Policy and Strategy Director

Decision Summary:

Public or Exempt?

(State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

Public

Type of Report:

Oral or Written?

Written

Person Giving

Oral Report:

 

Written Report

Title :

Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2008

Date of Written Report:

16 September 2008

Written Report Author:

Sue Duhamel

Policy and Strategy Director

Written Report :

Public or Exempt?

(State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

Public

Subject:  Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2008

Decision(s):  The Minister made the Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2008.

Reason(s) for Decision: Income Support components will rise by 3.7% from 1 October 2008.  The component rates are set by Regulation which has been approved by the States.

Other monetary parameters are set within the General Provisions Order. These values also need to be increased by 3.7% (subject to slight adjustment to ensure that income parameters are divisible by 7).  Maintaining these parameters in line with the components ensures that the calculation of Income Support benefit is consistently uprated.

Resource Implications:  There are no manpower implications.   The cost of increasing these parameters is included within the cost of uprating Income Support which has a full year estimated cost of £1.6 Million.  This will be met from within proposed cash limits.

Action required:  Notify the Greffe and the Law Draftsman that the Order has been made and forward the signed and sealed Order to the Greffe for notification to the States.

Signature:

Position:

Date Signed:

Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2008.

Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 200-

Explanatory Note

This Order increases by about 3.7% the capital and income amounts to be disregarded in assessing income for income support purposes. 
 
 

 

Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 200-

Made [date to be inserted]

Coming into force [date to be inserted]

THE MINISTER FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, in pursuance of Articles 7 and 18 of the Income Support (Jersey) Law 2007, orders as follows 

1 Schedule 2 amended

Each provision of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2008 mentioned in column 1 of the following tablet is amended by substituting for the amount mentioned in column 2 of the table the amount mentioned in column 3 of the table.

Table

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provision of Schedule 2

Existing amount

New amount

 

£

£

2(1)(a)

11,443

11,866

2(1)(b)

7,629

7,911

2(1)(c)

18,967

19,669

2(1)(d)

12,645

13,113

2(1)(e)

11,443

11,866

2(1)(f)

18,967

19,669

5(c)

26.11

27.09

5(d)

16.38

17.01

5(e)(i)

15.68

16.24

5(e)(ii)

15.68

16.24

5(e)(ii)

26.11

27.09

5(e)(iii)

26.11

27.09

5(e)(iii)

47.04

48.79

2 Citation and commencement

(1) This Order may be cited as the Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 200-.

(2) It shall come into force on 1st October 2008. 

 

 

 

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