Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015, Paragraph 6 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 06 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
6—(1) A pensioner whose spouse or civil partner has died is entitled to an inherited amount under this paragraph if—N.I.
(a)the marriage took place or the civil partnership was formed before 6 April 2016,
(b)the pensioner was under pensionable age when the spouse or civil partner died,
(c)the spouse or civil partner was, immediately before his or her death, entitled to a state pension payable at the transitional rate,
(d)that transitional rate exceeded the full rate of the state pension, and
(e)the pensioner did not marry or form a civil partnership after the death and before reaching pensionable age.
(2) The inherited amount is half of the amount by which the transitional rate of the state pension for the spouse or civil partner would have exceeded the full rate of the state pension if he or she had been alive on the day on which the pensioner reached pensionable age.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 6 in operation at 6.4.2016, see s. 53(1)(3)
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