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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-exemption-from-claiming-retirement-pension-regulations-2011/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-exemption-from-claiming-retirement-pension-regulations-2011/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1554",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Exemption from Claiming Retirement Pension) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-exemption-from-claiming-retirement-pension-regulations-2011",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1968).\nIn particular, they relate to the persons who may receive a notification from the Secretary of State that they will not need to make a claim in order to be awarded a Category A or B retirement pension because they are in receipt of certain benefits 8 weeks before reaching the age for entitlement to such a pension. They provide that such notifications may also be sent to those persons who would have been in receipt of those benefits at that time but for the application of a sanction under, or by virtue of, any provision of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (c.11). Sanctions under, or by virtue of, that Act apply where a person has been convicted of, or has accepted a caution or an administrative penalty in respect of, an offence relating to a social security benefit.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1554/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:03:43.485578+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."
}