{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-6/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/28",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) £20 is disregarded if the claimant or, if he has a partner, his partner –\n(a) is in receipt of –\n(i) long-term incapacity benefit under section 30A of the Contributions and Benefits Act;\n(ii) severe disablement allowance under section 68 of that Act;\n(iii) attendance allowance;\n(iv) disability living allowance under section 71 to 76 of that Act;\n(iva) armed forces independence payment;\n(v) any mobility supplement under Article 20 of the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006 (including such a supplement by virtue of any other scheme or order) or under Article 25A of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983;\n(vi) the disability element or the severe disability element of working tax credit under Schedule 2 to the Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) Regulations 2002,...\n(vii) employment and support allowance, or\n(b) is or are certified as severely sight impaired or blind by a consultant ophthalmologist.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), £20 is disregarded if the claimant or, if he has a partner, his partner has, within a period of 8 weeks ending on the day in respect of which the claimant first satisfies the conditions for entitlement to state pension credit, had an award of income support , income-based jobseeker’s allowance or income-related employment and support allowance and –\n(a) £20 was disregarded in respect of earnings taken into account in that award;\n(b) the person whose earnings qualified for the disregard continues in employment after the termination of that award.\n(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), £20 is disregarded if the claimant or, if he has a partner, his partner, immediately before attaining pensionable age –\n(a) had an award of state pension credit, and\n(b) a disregard under paragraph 4(1)(a)(i) or (ii) was taken into account in determining that award.\n(4) The disregard of £20 specified in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) applies so long as there is no break, other than a break which does not exceed 8 weeks –\n(a) in a case to which sub-paragraph (2) refers, in a person’s entitlement to state pension credit or in employment following the first day in respect of which state pension credit is awarded, or\n(b) in a case where sub-paragraph (3) applies, in the person’s entitlement to state pension credit since attaining pensionable age.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 4(1)(a), (iva) inserted (24.12.2013) by The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme (Consequential Provisions: Subordinate Legislation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3021), arts. 1, 23(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 4(1)(a)(v) substituted (5.1.2009) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 7) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/498), regs. 1(1), 4(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 6 para. 4(1)(a)(vi) omitted (27.10.2008) by virtue of The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/286), regs. 1(b), 30(10)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 4(1)(a)(vii) added (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/286), regs. 1(b), 30(10)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 4(1)(b) substituted (26.11.2014) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/275), regs. 1(1), 4(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 4(2) substituted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/286), regs. 1(b), 30(10)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 4 in operation at 6.10.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 30A was inserted by Article 3(1) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12)) and amended by Article 61 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/686; Article 25A was amended by S.I. 1983/1164 and 1540 and 1986/628"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/2005"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/228",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/228",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/1",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and State Pension Credit (Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/1",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and State Pension Credit (Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "Sch. 6 para. 4(1)(a)(viii) renumbered as Sch. 6 para. 4(1)(a)(viia)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/530",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Order 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/177",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2024/919",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/227",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:09.593277+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."
}