{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/19",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "State pension credit: phasing out assessed income periods",
  "text": "(1) In section 6 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (duty to specify assessed income period), in subsection (1), after “subsection (3) or (4)” insert “ where the relevant decision takes effect before 6 April 2016 ”.\n(2) At the end of the heading to that section insert “ for pre-6 April 2016 awards ”.\n(3) Regulations under section 9(5) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 may in particular be made for the purpose of phasing out, on or after 6 April 2016, any remaining assessed income period that is 5 years or shorter than 5 years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 28(1)(2) in force at 6.4.2016 by S.I. 2015/1475, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 28(3) in force at 7.7.2015 by S.I. 2015/1475, art. 2(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/19/section/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:37.828516+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}