Regulation 4 Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002

(1)

The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

At the end of regulation 15(5) (income for the purposes of the Act), add—

“(k)

PPF periodic payments^f2.”.

(3)

In Schedule 1, Part 3 (amount applicable for former claimants of income support or income-related jobseeker’s allowance) for paragraph 6(9)(b) substitute—

“(b)

any amount by which the appropriate minimum guarantee of a patient is increased on 10th April 2006 by virtue of the substitution of paragraph 2^f3 of Schedule 3.”.

(4)

In paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 (further provisions in the case of patients), in sub-paragraph (2)(a), after “in paragraph (a)” add “, and nil is the prescribed additional amount for the purposes of paragraph (b)”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2002/1792.
f2: PPF periodic payments are defined in section 17(1) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 as amended by S.I. 2006/343.
f3: Paragraph 2 was substituted by S.I. 2005/3360.