Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975.

The Regulations modify the conditions relating to entitlement to basic component and additional component of retirement pension, and to the payment of up-rating increases, in relation to persons absent from and not ordinarily resident in Great Britain. They prescribe upper limits by which Category A retirement pensions of persons who are absent from Great Britain may be increased by any Category B pensions to which they become entitled.

The Regulations also adapt and apply the provisions of the principal regulations to the up-rating of increments in guaranteed minimum pensions, and to the up-rating of pensions payable to widowers and others on the contributions of their former spouses.