http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1792/part/IV/2017-11-03The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002texttext/xmlenStatute Law DatabaseSOCIAL SECURITY2024-11-29Expert Participation2017-11-03 The Regulations contained in this Instrument are made either by virtue of, or in consequence of, provisions in the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c.16) (“the 2002 Act”). This Instrument is made before the expiry of the period of 6 months beginning with the coming into force of those provisions; the regulations in it are therefore exempt in accordance with section 173(5) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 from the requirement in section 172(2) of that Act to refer proposals to make Regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee and are made without reference to that Committee. PART IV<Emphasis>Loss of benefit</Emphasis> Loss of benefit251The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Regulations 2001 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.2In regulation 2 (disqualification period), in—iparagraph (1) (a)(iii) and paragraph (3) (c) after the words “jobseeker’s allowance”, insert “ , state pension credit ”; andiiparagraph (1) (b)(iii) for the words “or jobseeker’s allowance”, substitute “ jobseeker’s allowance or state pension credit ”.3After regulation 3, insert— Reduction in state pension credit3A1Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, state pension credit shall be payable in the case of an offender for any week comprised in the disqualification period or in the case of an offender’s family member for any week comprised in the relevant period, as if the rate of benefit were reduced—awhere the offender or the offender’s family member is pregnant or seriously ill, by 20 per cent. of the relevant sum; orbwhere sub-paragraph (a) does not apply, by 40 per cent. of the relevant sum.2In paragraph (1), the “relevant sum” is the amount applicable—aexcept where sub-paragraph (b) applies, in respect of a single claimant aged not less than 25 under paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations; orbif the claimant’s family member is the offender and the offender has not attained the age of 25, the amount applicable in respect of a person of the offender’s age under paragraph 1(1) of Part I of that Schedule,on the first day of the disqualification period or, as the case may be, on the first day of the relevant period.3Payment of state pension credit shall not be reduced under this regulation to less than 10 pence per week.4A reduction under paragraph (1) shall, if it is not a multiple of 5 pence, be rounded to the nearest such multiple or, if it is a multiple of 2.5 pence but not of 5 pence, to the next lower multiple of 5 pence.5Where the rate of state pension credit payable to an offender or an offender’s family member changes, the rules set out above for a reduction in the credit payable shall be applied to the new rate and any adjustment to the reduction shall take effect from the first day of the first benefit week to start after the date of change.6In paragraph (5), “benefit week” has the same meaning as in regulation 1(2) of the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002.7A person of a prescribed description for the purposes of the definition of “family” in section 137(1) of the Benefits Act as it applies for the purpose of this regulation is—aa person who is an additional spouse for the purposes of section 12(1) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (additional spouse in the case of polygamous marriages);ba person aged 16 or over who is treated as a child for the purposes of section 142 of the Benefits Act.S.I. 2001/4022; the relevant amending Instrument is S.I. 2002/486. 2002 c. 16.
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<Text>Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, state pension credit shall be payable in the case of an offender for any week comprised in the disqualification period or in the case of an offender’s family member for any week comprised in the relevant period, as if the rate of benefit were reduced—</Text>
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