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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-financial-assessment-wales-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-40",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1844",
  "legislation_title": "The Care and Support (Financial Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-financial-assessment-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/40",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where A is in receipt of savings credit as a person who has no partner and has qualifying income not exceeding the standard minimum guarantee—\n(a) the amount of that savings credit where the amount received is £5.75 or less; or\n(b) £5.75 of that savings credit where the amount received is greater than £5.75.\n(2) Where A—\n(a) has no partner;\n(b) has attained the age of 65; and\n(c) has qualifying income in excess of the standard minimum guarantee,\na sum of £5.75.\n(3) Where A is in receipt of savings credit as a person who has a partner and has qualifying income not exceeding the standard minimum guarantee—\n(a) the amount of that savings credit where the amount received is £8.60 or less; or\n(b) £8.60 of that savings credit where the amount received is greater than £8.60.\n(4) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), where A—\n(a) has a partner;\n(b) has—\n(i) attained the age of 65; or\n(ii) has attained pension credit age and A’s partner has attained the age of 65; and\n(c) has qualifying income in excess of the standard minimum guarantee,\na sum of £8.60.\n(5) Where—\n(a) the sum referred to in sub-paragraph (4) has been disregarded in the assessment of A’s partner’s income under these Regulations; or\n(b) A’s partner is in receipt of savings credit,\nsub-paragraph (4) does not apply to A.\n(6) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) A has a partner if A would be considered to have a partner for the purposes of the Pension Credit Regulations;\n(b) “qualifying income” (“incwm cymhwyso”) is to be construed in accordance with regulation 9 of the Pension Credit Regulations and for the purposes of sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) the person’s qualifying income includes any qualifying income of the A’s partner;\n(c) “standard minimum guarantee” (“gwarant isafswm safonol”) means, for the purposes of—\n(i) sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), the amount prescribed by regulation 6(1)(b) of the Pension Credit Regulations; and\n(ii) sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), the amount prescribed by regulation 6(1)(a) of the Pension Credit Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 40 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1844/schedule/1/paragraph/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:30.640324+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}