{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/16",
  "legislation_title": "State Pension Credit Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Income and capital of claimant, spouse etc",
  "text": "Where the claimant is a member of a couple , the income and capital of the other member of the couple shall, except in prescribed circumstances, be treated for the purposes of this Act as income and capital of the claimant.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(d), Sch. 24 para. 140; S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 5: power to apply conferred (prosp.) by Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), s. 136A(3)(a) (as inserted (prosp.) by State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16), ss. 14, 22(3), Sch. 2 para. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 partly in force; s. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 22(3); s. 5 in force for certain purposes at 2.7.2002 by S.I. 2002/1691, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 6.10.2003 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2003/1766, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/16/section/5",
    "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."
}