Paragraph 90 I1

After that section insert—

“Power to limit savings credit for certain mixed-age couples

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(1)

Regulations may provide that, in prescribed cases, a person who is a member of a mixed-age couple is not entitled to a savings credit.

(2)

For example, the regulations could provide that a member of a mixed-age couple is not entitled to a savings credit unless—

(a)

the person has been awarded a savings credit with effect from a day before 6 April 2016 and was entitled to a savings credit immediately before that date, and

(b)

the person remained entitled to state pension credit at all times since the beginning of 6 April 2016.

(3)

In this section “mixed-age couple” means a couple (whenever formed) one member of which had attained pensionable age before 6 April 2016 and the other had not.”