{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/schedule-3/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/14",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The contribution condition for a widow's allowance is that—\n(a) the contributor concerned must in respect of any one relevant year have actually paid contributions of a relevant class ; and\n(b) the earnings factor derived from those contributions must be not less than that year's lower earnings limit multiplied by 25.\n(2) For the purposes of this condition a relevant year is any year ending before the date on which the contributor concerned attained pensionable age or died under that age.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/14/schedule/3/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:40:38.067895+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."
}