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  Social Security and Pensions
  
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  @ MP voted aye to increase a wide range of benefits, payments and pensions by 3.1%, in-line with an increase in prices. 
  
  @ MP voted aye against increasing a wide range of benefits, payments and pensions by 3.1%, in-line with an increase in prices. 
  
  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 [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348231151/contents 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 widowsâ and widowersâ benefits in Industrial Death Benefit 
  * * The personal or standard allowances of Universal Credit, Income Support, Housing Benefit, Jobseekerâs 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
  * * Carerâs Allowance
  * * Disability Living Allowance
  * * Graduated Retirement Benefit
  * * Incapacity Benefit
  * * increments to State Pension
  * * Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
  * * Personal Independence Payment
  * * Severe Disablement Allowance
  * * Widowed Motherâs Allowance
  * * Widowed Parentâs 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
  â¢ Employment and Support Allowance, Housing Benefit, Income Support,
  Jobseekerâs Allowance and Universal Credit personal or standard allowances
  â¢ Additional amounts in Pension Credit payable on grounds of disability and
  caring responsibilities
  â¢ 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] [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348231151/pdfs/ukdsiem_9780348231151_en.pdf Explanatory notes to the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022], Legislation.gov.uk
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