Regulation 4 Money purchase underpin benefits

If, at the relevant date, a member of an occupational pension scheme has rights under the scheme to money purchase underpin benefits, the existence of a contingent promise under the scheme to provide a defined benefit minimum to the member does not prevent the money purchase underpin benefits from being money purchase benefits for as long as the defined benefit minimum is of equal or lower value than the amount of the member’s rights to money purchase underpin benefits.

In this regulation “the relevant date” means the date as at which the amount of the money purchase underpin benefits and the value of a defined benefit minimum promised under the scheme is being compared (for any purpose) in order to determine which is greater.