Regulation 2 Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002

(1)

The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002^f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2)

In regulation 10 (assessed income period)—

(a)

for paragraph (2)(a), substitute—

“(a)

except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, the arrangements under which the assessed amount is paid contain no provision for periodic increases in the amount payable; or”;

(b)

in paragraph (5B)^f2, in the definition of “increased payment date”, omit the words “under the claimant’s retirement pension scheme or annuity contract”.

(3)

At the end of regulation 16 (retirement pension income), add—

“(n)

any payment made under the Financial Assistance Scheme Regulations 2005^f3.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2002/1792.
f2: Paragraph (5B) was substituted by regulation 3 of S.I. 2004/647.
f3: S.I. 2005/1986.