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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/16",
  "legislation_title": "State Pension Credit Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Income support",
  "text": "(1) Section 124 is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1) (entitlement to income support), after paragraph (a) (claimant must be 16 or over) insert—\n“(aa) he has not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit;”.\n(3) In that subsection, after paragraph (f) (claimant must not be entitled to jobseeker’s allowance etc) insert\n“; and\n(g) if he is a member of a married or unmarried couple, the other member of the couple is not entitled to state pension credit.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 22(3); Sch. 2 in force for certain purposes at 2.7.2002 by S.I. 2002/1691, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 6.10.2003 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2003/1766, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007"
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/16/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:34.394153+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."
}