Regulation 7B Notional entitlement to Category B retirement pension for new State Pension purposesF1
This regulation applies for the purposes of determining whether, in accordance with paragraph 3(1)(d) of Schedule 3 to the Pensions Act 2014 (survivor’s pension inherited amount: dead spouse or civil partner in old state pension scheme), a person (“the pensioner”) would have been entitled to a Category B retirement pension.
The pensioner shall be treated as being entitled to bereavement support payment if the pensioner would have been so entitled but for one or both of the circumstances specified in paragraph (3).
The circumstances referred to in paragraph (2) are—
the pensioner’s failure to make, or the pensioner’s delay in making, a claim for that bereavement support payment;
the operation of section 32 of the Pensions Act 2014 (bereavement support payment: prisoners) or any regulations made under that section.
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Reg. 7B inserted (coming into force in accordance with arts. 1-3 of the amending S.I.) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/422), arts. 1(2), 7(4)