Regulation 11 Amendment of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979

Regulation 6 is amended in accordance with this regulation.

In paragraph (3B), for “Subject to paragraph (4) of this regulation, the” substitute “The”.

Omit paragraph (4).

After paragraph (5) insert—

“(6)

For the purposes of this regulation, “qualifying year” means a year for which a person’s earnings factor is sufficient to satisfy paragraph 5(3)(b) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and includes a year which is treated as such a year by virtue of regulation 8(4).”.

The amendments in paragraphs (2) to (4) do not apply where the contributor concerned attained pensionable age or died before 6th April 2010.