{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-married-women-and-widows-special-provisions-regulations-1974/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-married-women-and-widows-special-provisions-regulations-1974/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/2010",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Benefit) (Married Women and Widows Special Provisions) Regulations 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-married-women-and-widows-special-provisions-regulations-1974",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Credits for women who are or have been widows",
  "text": "(1) In respect of the whole of any year such as is described in paragraph (2) of this regulation and which falls before 6th April 1978. there shall be credited to a woman such Class 3 contributions (if any) as are necessary to enable her to acquire the requisite earnings factor for the year in question for entitlement to any benefit set out in section 9(4) of the Act for which Class 3 contributions are relevant.\n(2) Paragraph (1) of this regulation applies—\n(a) where the woman has been widowed after 6th October 1974 but before 6th April 1975, to the year beginning on 6th April 1975;\n(b) where the woman has been widowed after 5th April 1975, to the year in which her husband died, and, where he died after 30th September in any year, to the next year;\n(c) where the woman has been widowed and at the end of the period of one or 2 years specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph there is pending a claim or application made by the woman as a widow within 182 days (including Sundays) of her husband's death for any benefit specified in regulation 2(5) of the Social Security (Contributions) (Married Women and Widows Special Provisions) Regulations 1973, to any year subsequent to the year or years specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph but not later than the year in which that claim or application is determined;\n(d) to any year during any part of which a widow's benefit (other than a widow's pension payable at a rate reduced under section 21(2) of the Act) or benefit under section 27(4) of the Act corresponding to a widow's pension or a widowed mother's allowance (other than benefit which is reduced in accordance with the provisions of regulation 10(3) of the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1974) is payable to her as a widow;\n(e) for the purpose of a claim by the woman to a Category A retirement pension, to any year during any part of which a widow's benefit (other than a widow's pension payable at a rate reduced under section 21(2) of the Act) or benefit under section 27(4) of the Act corresponding to a widow's pension or a widowed mother's allowance (other than benefit which is reduced in accordance with the provisions of regulation 10(3) of the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1974) would have been payable to her as a widow but for—\n(i) her absence from Great Britain,\n(ii) the operation of the provisions of regulations made under paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 to the Act (overlapping benefits), or\n(iii) her failure to make, or delay in making, a claim to the benefit; and\n(f) for the purpose of a claim by the woman to a Category A retirement pension, where she has been a widow and has remarried, to any year during any week in which any of the following benefits, namely—\n(i) any personal death benefit under the Industrial Injuries Act; and\n(ii) any personal death benefit by way of pension or allowance (not being a grant payable by reason of the beneficiary being in receipt of a pension and being over 65 years of age or a pension or allowance calculated by reference to the necessities of the beneficiary) under any Personal Injuries Scheme or Service Pensions Instrument or any 1914-1918 War Injuries Scheme,\nwas payable to her as a widow at a rate which equalled or exceeded the weekly rate of widow's pension under the Act, current in that week, as specified in the second column of Part I of Schedule 4 to the Act.\nProvided that sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) above shall not apply to any year throughout the whole of which the woman is absent from Great Britain unless she was an insured person under the former Principal Act or before that year she has paid a contribution under the Act.\n(3) In determining whether a year is a reckonable year for the purpose of a woman's right to a Category A retirement pension, any contribution credited to her by virtue of the provisions of this regulation shall be either taken into or left out of account, whichever course may from time to time be more to her advantage.\n(4) Where a woman is in receipt of any personal death benefit by way of pension or allowance payable to her as a widow under the Industrial Injuries Act, any Personal Injuries Scheme, any Service Pensions Instrument or any 1914-1918 War Injuries Scheme, any Category A retirement pension which is payable to her wholly or in part by taking into account contributions credited to her by virtue of the provisions of this regulation shall, for the purposes of regulations made under paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 to the Act (overlapping benefits), be treated as payable, wholly or in part, by virtue of her husband's contributions;\nProvided that, in the case of a woman who has been a widow more than once, the provisions of this paragraph shall apply in relation only to contributions credited to her as the widow of her last husband.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) inserted (30.9.1977) by The Social Security (Benefit) (Married Women and Widows Special Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1977 (S.I. 1977/1484), regs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(2)(d)-(e) inserted (6.4.1975) by The Social Security Benefit (Married Women and Widows) (Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1975 (S.I. 1975/562), regs. 1, 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 6(2) proviso (6.4.1975) by The Social Security Benefit (Married Women and Widows) (Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1975 (S.I. 1975/562), regs. 1, 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1973 II, p. 4245)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/2010/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:20:32.537298+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."
}