Article 1 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

(1)

This Order may be cited as the State Pension Revaluation for Transitional Pensions Order 2025.

(2)

This Order comes into force on—

(a)

22nd December 2025 for the purpose of making an award on a claim for a state pension under regulation 15(1) of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 (advance notice of retirement and claim for and award of pension)^f1 to a person who reaches pensionable age^f2 on or after 7th April 2026, and

(b)

6th April 2026 for all other purposes.

(3)

This Order extends to England and Wales and Scotland.

(4)

In this article “a state pension” means a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1987/1968; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2005/1551, 2015/1985.
f2: For the meaning of “pensionable age” see section 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, which refers to the rules in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26), and was inserted by paragraph 31 of Schedule 8 to the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48) and substituted by paragraph 14 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act 1995.