Social Security

I am satisfied that the orders are compatible with the European convention on human rights. The uprating order will, as usual, increase most national insurance benefits by the retail prices index, which is 2.7 per cent., and increase most income-related benefits by Rossi, an index that excludes rent, mortgage interest, council tax and depreciation, which is 2.2 per cent. The Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2006 deals with contracted-out occupational pension schemes and guaranteed minimum pensions that accrued between 1988 and 1997 and provides for an increase of 2.7 per cent.