The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002

Regulation 17(9)

SCHEDULE VI SUMS DISREGARDED FROM CLAIMANT’S EARNINGS

1.—(1) In a case where a claimant is a lone parent, £20 of earnings.

(2) In this paragraph—

(a) “lone parent” means a person who has no partner and who is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child;

(b) “child” means a person [F1 who is a qualifying young person [F2 within the meaning of regulation 4A] or] a child [F3 as defined in section 40 of the 2012 Act].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. VI para. 1(2)(b) substituted (10.4.2006) by The Social Security (Young Persons) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/718), regs. 1(2)(a), 6(6)

F2 Words in Sch. VI para. 1(2)(b) inserted (28.7.2016) by The Housing Benefit and State Pension Credit (Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/624), regs. 1, 4(10) (with reg. 5(3))

F3 Words in Sch. VI para. 1(2)(b) substituted (28.7.2016) by The Housing Benefit and State Pension Credit (Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/624), regs. 1, 4(10) (with reg. 5(3))

2.  In a case of earnings from employment to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, £20.

(2) This paragraph applies to employment—

F4 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F5 (aa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F6 (ab) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F7 (a) a part-time fire-fighter employed by a fire and rescue authority under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service established under section 1A of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005;]

(b) as an auxiliary coastguard in respect of coast rescue activities;

(c) in the manning or launching of a lifeboat if the employment is part-time.

[F8 (d) a member of any territorial or reserve force prescribed in Part I of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001]

Textual Amendments

F4 Sch. VI para. 2(2)(a) revoked (S.) (2.8.2005 for specified purposes; (E.W.) (29.10.2013) in so far as not already in force) by The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2060), art. 1(2)(f), Sch. para. 16(a); (S.I. 2013/2536), reg. 10(5)(a)

F5 Sch. VI para. 2(2)(aa) omitted (E.W.) (29.10.2013) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2536), regs. 1(1), 10(5)(b)

F6 Sch. VI para. 2(2)(ab) omitted (S.) (29.10.2013) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2536), regs. 1(1), 10(5)(c)

F7 Sch. VI para. 2(2)(a) inserted (29.10.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2536), regs. 1(1), 10(5)(d)

F8 Sch. VI para. 2(2)(d) added (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3197), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. para. 13(a)

[F9 2A.   Where a person is engaged in one or more of the employments specified in paragraph 2 but his earnings derived from those employments are less than £20 in any week and he is also engaged in any other employment, so much of his earnings from that other employment as would not in aggregate with the amount of his earnings disregarded under paragraph 2 exceed £20.]

Textual Amendments

F9 Sch. VI para. 2A inserted (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3197), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. para. 13(b)

[F10 2B.   Where only one member of a couple is in employment specified in paragraph 2(2), so much of the earnings of the other member of the couple as would not, in aggregate with the earnings disregarded under paragraph 2, exceed £20.]

Textual Amendments

F10 Sch. VI para. 2B added (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2274), regs. 1, 2(13)

3.—(1) If the claimant or one of the partners is a carer, or both partners are carers, £20 of any earnings received from his or their employment.

(2) In this paragraph the claimant or his partner is a carer if paragraph 4 of Part II of Schedule I (amount applicable for carers) is satisfied in respect of him.

4.—(1) £20 is disregarded if the claimant or, if he has a partner, his partner—

(a) is in receipt of—

(i) long-term incapacity benefit under Section 30A of the 1992 ActM1 ;

(ii) severe disablement allowance under section 68 of that Act;

(iii) attendance allowance;

(iv) disability living allowance under section 71 to 76 of that Act;

(v) any mobility supplement under [F11 article 20 of the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006] M2 (including such a supplement by virtue of any other scheme or order) or under article 25A of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983M3 ; F12 ...

[F13 (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; or]

[F14 (vii) employment and support allowance; F15 ...]

[F16 (viii) personal independence payment; F17 ...]

[F18 (viiia) adult disability payment;]

[F19 (ix) armed forces independence payment; or]

[F20 (b) is or are certified as severely sight impaired or blind by a consultant ophthalmologist.]

(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[F21 , income-based jobseeker's allowance or income-related employment and support allowance] and—

(a) £20 was disregarded in respect of earnings taken into account in that award;

(b) the person whose earnings qualified for the disegard continues in employment after the termination of that award.

(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,—

(a) had an award of state pension credit; and

(b) a disregard under paragraph 4(1)(a)(i) or (ii) was taken into account in determining that award.

(4) The disregard of £20 specified in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) applies so long as there is no break, other a break which does not exceed 8 weeks,—

(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

(b) in a case where sub-paragraph (3) applies, in the person’s entitlement to state pension credit since attaining pensionable age.

F22 (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F11 Words in Sch. VI para. 4(1)(a)(v) substituted (5.1.2009) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 7) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3157), regs. 1(1), 4(7)

F12 Word in Sch. VI para. 4(1)(a)(v) omitted (27.10.2008) by virtue of The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 4(10)(a)(i)

F13 Sch. VI para. 4(1)(a)(vi) added (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3197), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. para. 13(c)(i)

F14 Sch. VI para. 4(1)(a)(vii) added (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 4(10)(a)(ii)

F15 Word in Sch. VI para. 4(1)(a)(vii) omitted (8.4.2013) by virtue of The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/388), reg. 2, Sch. para. 27(8)(a)

F16 Sch. VI para. 4(1)(a)(viii) inserted (8.4.2013) by The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/388), reg. 2, Sch. para. 27(8)(b)

F17 Word in Sch. VI para. 4(1)(a)(viii) omitted (8.4.2013) by virtue of The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme (Consequential Provisions: Subordinate Legislation) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/591), art. 2(2), Sch. para. 23(8)(a)

F18 Sch. VI para. 4(1)(a)(viiia) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 8(7)

F19 Sch. VI para. 4(1)(a)(ix) inserted (8.4.2013) by The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme (Consequential Provisions: Subordinate Legislation) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/591), art. 2(2), Sch. para. 23(8)(b)

F20 Sch. VI para. 4(1)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 3(4)(c)

F21 Words in Sch. VI para. 4(2) substituted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 4(10)(b)

F22 Sch. VI para. 4(5) omitted (6.10.2003) by virtue of The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3197), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. para. 13(c)(ii)

Marginal Citations

M1 Section 30A was inserted by Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c. 18).

M2 S.I.1983/883.

M3 S.I.1983/686; amended by S.I.1983/1164 and 1540 and 1986/628.

[F23 4A.— (1) £20 is the maximum amount which may be disregarded under any of paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 4 notwithstanding that—

(a) in the case of a claimant with no partner, he satisfies the requirements of more than one of those paragraphs or, in the case of paragraph 4, he satisfies the requirements of more than one of the sub-paragraphs of that paragraph; or

(b) in the case of [F24 couples], both partners satisfy one or more of the requirements of paragraphs 2, 3 and 4.

(2) Where, in a case to which sub-paragraph (1)(b) applies, the amount to be disregarded in respect of one of the partners (“the first partner”) is less than £20, the amount to be disregarded in respect of the other partner shall be so much of that other partner’s earnings as would not, in aggregate with the first partner’s earnings, exceed £20.]

Textual Amendments

F23 Sch. VI para. 4A inserted (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3197), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. para. 13(d)

F24 Word in Sch. VI para. 4A(1)(b) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 35(6) (with art. 3)

5.  Except where the claimant or his partner qualifies for a £20 disregard under the preceding provisions of this Schedule—

(a) £5 shall be disregarded if a claimant who has no partner has earnings;

(b) £10 shall be disregarded if a claimant who has a partner has earnings.

6.  Any earnings [F25 , other than any amount referred to in regulation 17(9)(b),] derived from any employment which ended before the day in respect of which the claimant first satisfies the conditions for entitlement to state pension credit.

Textual Amendments

F25 Words in Sch. VI para. 6 inserted (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3197), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. para. 13(e)

[F26 7.   Any banking charges or commission payable in converting to Sterling payments of earnings made in a currency other than Sterling.]

Textual Amendments

F26 Sch. VI para. 7 added (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3197), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. para. 13(f)