{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/schedule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/schedule-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/643",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Widow's Benefit, Retirement Pensions and Other Benefits) (Transitional) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "ALTERNATIVE RIGHTS TO BENEFIT",
  "text": "Column (1)\nColumn (2)\nBenefits under the former principal Act\nBenefits under the Act or the Pensions Act\nwidowed mother's allowance\nwidowed mother's allowance\nwidow's pension\nwidow's pension\nretirement pension by virtue of own insurance\nCategory A retirement pension\nretirement pension by virtue of husband's insurance whilst husband alive\nCategory B retirement pension at the rate specified in paragraph 9 of Part I of Schedule 4 to the Act\nretirement pension by virtue of husband's insurance and husband no longer alive\nCategory B retirement pension at the rate specified in section 6(1)(a) of the Pensions Act for the basic pension of a Category A retirement pension\nretirement pension for, or in respect of, person over pensionable age on 5th July 1948\nCategory C retirement pension at rate determined in accordance with section 39(2) of the Act\nretirement pension for person over 80 years of age\nCategory D retirement pension\nage addition\nage addition\ninvalidity increase of retirement pension\ninvalidity increase of Category A retirement pension\nwidow's basic pension\nwidow's pension as provided for by regulation 17\ncontributory old age pension\nCategory A or B retirement pension as provided for by regulation 18\nchild's special allowance\nchild's special allowance\ndeath grant\ndeath grant\nwidow's pension by virtue of section 1(1) of the National Insurance Act 1970\nbenefit by virtue of section 39(4) of the Act corresponding to a widow's pension\nwidowed mother's allowance by virtue of the said section 1(1)\nbenefit by virtue of the said section 39(4) corresponding to a widowed mother's allowance",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 substituted (6.4.1987) by Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), reg. 1, s. 18(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/643/schedule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:17:46.274471+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."
}