# The Church of England Pensions Regulations 1988, Regulation 6: Increase of pensions


(1) The Commissioners shall have power to give to the Board from time to time directions for increasing the rates of pension payable under the preceding provisions of these regulations to scheme members or to any class or description of scheme members, including in particular scheme members described by reference to the time when they became or become entitled to pensions under these regulations.
(2) The Commissioners may augment, by such amount as may be agreed with the Board and for such period as may be so agreed, the pension payable under the preceding provisions of these regulations to any individual scheme member.
(3) If the Board consider that for any year the total income of any scheme member who is in receipt of a pension under these regulations is or is likely to be less than such amount as the Board with the concurrence of the Commissioners may for the purposes of this subsection determine in relation to that year, the Board may request the Commissioners to pay to that member such supplementary pension, not exceeding the amount needed to bring the scheme member’s total income for the year in question up to the amount so determined in relation to that year, as the Board may determine in accordance with general directions of the Commissioners.
In this paragraph “total income” in relation to any scheme member means the total income of the member from all sources as estimated by the Board, and in the case of a member who is living with his or her spouse means the aggregate of the member’s total income and that of the spouse as so estimated; and in estimating the total income of any person the Board may disregard such part of the income of that person as in the special circumstances of the case they think fit.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2256/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-pensions-regulations-1988/regulation-6
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