{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/schedule-5/paragraph-2A",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/4",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/2A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) a person’s entitlement to a Category A or Category B retirement pension is deferred,\n(b) the pension includes an increase under paragraphs 5 to 6A, and\n(c) the person has made (or is treated as having made) an election under paragraph A1(1)(b) in relation to the period of deferment.\n(2) The rate of the person’s Category A or Category B retirement pension shall be increased by an amount equal to the aggregate of the increments to which he is entitled under sub-paragraph (3).\n(3) For each complete incremental period in the person’s period of deferment, the amount of the increment shall be 1/5th per cent. of the weekly rate of the increase to which the person would have been entitled under paragraphs 5 to 6A for the period if his entitlement to the Category A or Category B retirement pension had not been deferred.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 2A inserted (18.11.2004 for specified purposes, 6.4.2005 in so far as not already in force) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), s. 322(3)(a), Sch. 11 para. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 2A substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2053), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 modified (6.4.2005) by The Social Security (Retirement Pensions etc.) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/469), regs. 1(1), 2"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "type": "omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2011/19",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2011/19",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2011/19",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2011"
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    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2011/19",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "amendment to earlier affecting provision S.I. 2005/469 reg. 2(4)(a)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/516",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Deferral of Retirement Pensions etc.) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/4/schedule/5/paragraph/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:29.915383+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."
}