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The Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979
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1A.Disapplication of section 1(1A) of the Administration Act for the purposes of retirement pension
3A.Calculating periods of incapacity for work for welfare to work beneficiaries entitled to an increase of long-term incapacity benefit
5.Modification of paragraph 2(1) to (3) of Schedule 1 to the Pensions Act
6.Rate of benefit where the second contribution condition in paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 is not satisfied
6A.Proportion of retirement pension where the contribution condition in paragraph 5A of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 is not satisfied
7.Category B retirement pension for certain widows by virtue of husband's contributions
7A.Category B retirement pension for surviving spouses and surviving civil partners by virtue of deceased spouse’s or deceased civil partner's contributions
7B.Notional entitlement to Category B retirement pension for new State Pension purposes
8.Substitution of former spouse's or former civil partner's contribution record to give entitlement to a Category A retirement pension
9.Conditions for entitlement to a Category C retirement pension
10.Conditions for entitlement to a Category D retirement pension
11.Category C retirement pension for widows of men over pensionable age on 5th July 1948
12.Category C retirement pension for certain women whose marriage has been terminated otherwise than by death
13.Benefit corresponding to a widow's pension for widows of men over pensionable age on 5th July 1948
14.Benefit corresponding to a widowed mother's allowance for widows of men over pensionable age on 5th July 1948
15.Restriction on benefit under regulations 13 and 14 in certain cases
16.Provision in relation to entitlement to child benefit for the purposes of a widowed mother's allowance
16ZA.Provision in relation to entitlement to child benefit for the purposes of a widowed parent’s allowance
16A.Disapplication of section 1(1A) of the Administration Act for the purposes of widowed mother’s allowance or widowed parent’s allowance
17.Provisions relating to age addition for persons not in receipt of a retirement pension
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