[30B Incapacity benefit: rate]
Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (1992 c 4) | Legislation

[30B  Incapacity benefit: rate]

[(1)ÌýÌýÌýÌý The amount payable by way of incapacity benefit in respect of any day is 1/7th of the appropriate weekly rate.

(2)ÌýÌýÌýÌý Subject to the following provisions of this section, the weekly rate of short-term incapacity benefit is the lower or higher rate specified in Schedule 4, Part I, paragraph 2.

The benefit is payable at the lower rate so specified for the first 196 days of entitlement in any period of incapacity for work and at the higher rate so specified thereafter.

(3)ÌýÌýÌýÌý In the case of a person over pensionable age the weekly rate of short-term incapacity benefit is, subject to subsection (4) below, that at which the relevant retirement pension referred

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