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The Social Security (Deferral of Retirement Pensions, Shared Additional Pension and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2005

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Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002E+W+S

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13.—(1) The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002 M1 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation), after the definition of “full-time student” insert—

the Graduated Retirement Benefit Regulations” means the Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) Regulations 2005 M2;.

(3) In regulation 18 (notional income)—

(a)at the beginning of paragraph (6) insert “ Subject to paragraph (7), ”;

(b)after paragraph (6) add—

(7) Paragraph (6) shall not apply in respect of the amount of an increase of pension or benefit where a person, having made an election in favour of that increase of pension or benefit under Schedule 5 or 5A to the 1992 Act M3 or under Schedule 1 to the Graduated Retirement Benefit Regulations, changes that election in accordance with regulations made under Schedule 5 or 5A to that Act in favour of a lump sum.

(8) In paragraph (7), “lump sum” means a lump sum under Schedule 5 or 5A to the 1992 Act or under Schedule 1 to the Graduated Retirement Benefit Regulations..

(4) In Schedule V, in Part I (capital disregarded for the purpose of calculating income), after paragraph 23 insert—

23A.  Where a person elects to be entitled to a lump sum under Schedule 5 or 5A to the 1992 Act or under Schedule 1 to the Graduated Retirement Benefit Regulations, or is treated as having made such an election, and a payment has been made pursuant to that election, an amount equal to—

(a)except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, the amount of any payment or payments made on account of that lump sum;

(b)the amount of that lump sum,

but only for so long as that person does not change that election in favour of an increase of pension or benefit..

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M3Schedule 5A is inserted by paragraph 15 of Schedule 11 to the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35).

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