# The Social Security (Widow's Benefit, Retirement Pensions and Other Benefits) (Transitional) Regulations 1979, Regulation 12: Provision relating to increase of retirement pension where pensioner's deceased spouse or deceased civil partner had deferred retirement


For the purpose of calculating entitlement to an increase of retirement pension under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Pensions Act (increase of Category A or Category B retirement pension by amount to which deceased spouse or deceased civil partner was entitled) in the case of a person whose spouse dies on or after 6th April 1979 or whose civil partner dies on or after 5th December 2005, or, in the case of a widow, who attains pensionable age on or after 6th April 1979, any pre-1975 increment or post-1975 increment to which the deceased spouse or deceased civil partner was entitled or would at his death have been entitled if his entitlement had not been deferred shall be treated as an increase to which he was entitled under the said Schedule.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/643/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-12
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