Explanatory note

Under section 29(1) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 where a person is entitled bothto certain long term social security benefits and to a guaranteed minimum pension, then the social security benefit may, in some circumstances, be reduced by the current rate of guaranteed minimum pension these Regulations provide that while a person who is absent from Great Britain is disqualified for receiving uprating increases in the social security benefit then for the purpose of the deduction under section 29(1) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975, the rate of guaranteed minimum pension is to be determined as if it had not been uprated during the period of the disqualification.