Contributory Benefits and Contribution Rates for 2024

Committee for Employment & Social Security - P.2023/103

• Original Propositions

  • The States are asked to decide:
  • Whether, after consideration of the Policy Letter entitled 'Contributory Benefit and Contribution Rates for 2024', dated 8^th September 2023, they are of the opinion:
  • 1. To set the contributions limits and rates as set out in Tables 4, 5 and 6 of the Policy Letter, from 1^st January 2024.
  • 2. To direct the Committee forEmployment & Social Security to develop detailed policy proposals for a progressive restructuring of the social security contributions system -
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  •      a) based on the principles set out in paragraph 3.8 of the Policy Letter, and
  •      b) having regard to any relevant decisions arising from the States' consideration of the Funding & Investment Plan,
  • and to direct the Committee to report back to the States no later than 31^st December 2024.
  • 3. To set the standard rates of contributory social insurance benefits as set out in Table 7 of the Policy Letter, from 1^st January 2024.
  • 4. To set the contribution (co-payment) required to be made by the claimant of care benefit, under the Long-term care Insurance Scheme, at £327.32 per week, from 1^st January 2024.
  • 5. To set the weekly long-term care benefit at the rates set out in Table 9 of the Policy Letter, from 1^st January 2024.
  • 6. To set the weekly respite care benefit at the rates set out in Table 10 of the Policy Letter, from 1^st January 2024.
  • 7. To agree that the standard uprating policy for contributory benefits, except those funded from the Long-term Care Insurance Fund, should include a 'double lock and look back', as set out in paragraphs 2.7 to 2.9 of the Policy Letter.
  • 8. To note that the Committee intends to set the age of an individual's child, in respect of whom family allowance contribution credits are awarded, at 12 years old with effect from 1^st January 2025.
  • 9. To note that the Committee for Employment & Social Security intends to implement a scheme to protect the contribution records of parents who would be affected by the proposal in Proposition 8, including parents who provide home education for their children or whose children have additional care needs, and such other parents who can demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the Administrator to the Committee, that it would be fair and equitable in all the circumstances for them to be eligible for the protection scheme.
  • 10. To amend the Social Insurance (Guernsey) Law, 1978 by Ordinance to give the Committee a power, by Regulations, to adjust the aggregate period for which unemployment benefit is payable, from time to time, subject to a minimum aggregate period of 10 weeks and a maximum aggregate period of 30 weeks, as further detailed in paragraphs 7.2 to 7.4 of the Policy Letter.
  • 11. To amend the Social Insurance (Guernsey) Law, 1978 by Ordinance to enable unmarried parents to be eligible to receive widowed parent's allowance in the event that their cohabiting partner dies, and providing that they meet all other relevant eligibility criteria, as further detailed in paragraphs 6.5 to 6.6 of the Policy Letter.
  • 12. To direct the preparation of such legislation as may be necessary to give effect to the above decisions.

• Amendments

  • Amendment	Proposer	Seconder	Status
    Amendment 1 [191kb]	Deputy Soulsby	Deputy Leadbeater	Not laid
    Amendment 2 [269kb]	Deputy Soulsby	Deputy Leadbeater	Carried Voting Record

     

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