The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002

Assessed income period

10.—(1) For the purposes of section 6(2)(b) (circumstances in which the Secretary of State is prevented from specifying an assessed income period), the circumstances are—

(a) in the case of partners, one partner is under the age of 60; or

(b) state pension credit is awarded, or awarded at a higher rate, because an element of the claimant’s retirement provision which is due to be paid to the claimant stops temporarily.

[F1 (c) that—

(i) the Secretary of State has sent the claimant the notification required by regulation 32(6)(a) of the Claims and Payments Regulations; and

(ii) the claimant has not provided sufficient information to enable the Secretary of State to determine whether there will be any variation in the claimant’s retirement provision throughout the period of 12 months beginning with the day following the day on which the previous assessed income period ends.]

(2) The circumstances prescribed for the purposes of section 7(4) (circumstances in which assessed amounts are deemed not to change) are that—

[F2 (a) except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, the arrangements under which the assessed amount is paid contain no provision for periodic increases in the amount payable; or]

(b) the assessed income comprises income from capital other than income to which paragraph (7) applies.

(3) Paragraphs (4) and (5) do not apply where the assessed amount comprises income from capital.

(4) Where the Secretary of State is informed that the arrangements under which the assessed amount is paid contains provision—

(a) for the payment to be increased periodically;

(b) for the date on which the increase is to be paid; and

(c) for determining the amount of the increase,

the assessed amount shall be deemed to increase from the day specified in paragraph (5) by an amount determined by applying those provisions to the amount payable apart from this paragraph.

[F3 (5) The day referred to in this paragraph is—

(a) in a case to which paragraph (5A) applies—

(i) where the first increased payment date is the day on which the benefit week begins, that day;

(ii) where head (i) does not apply, the first day of the next benefit week which begins after that increased payment date;

(b) in a case to which paragraph (5A) does not apply—

(i) where the second increased payment date is the day on which the benefit week begins, that day;

(ii) where head (i) does not apply, the first day of the next benefit week following that increased payment date.

(5A) This paragraph applies where the period which—

(a) begins on the date from which the increase in the assessed amount is to accrue; and

(b) ends on the first increased payment date,

is a period of the same length as the period in respect of which the last payment of the pre-increase assessed amount was made.

(5B) In paragraphs (5) and (5A)—

“increased payment date” means a date on which the increase in the assessed amount referred to in paragraph (4) is paid as part of a periodic paymentF4 ...; and

“pre-increase assessed amount” means the assessed amount prior to that increase.]

(6) Except where paragraph (4) applies, the assessed amount shall be deemed to increase—

[F5 (a) on the day in April each year on which increases under section 150(1)(c) of the Administration Act come into force if that is the first day of a benefit week but if it is not from the next following such day; and]

(b) by an amount produced by applying to the assessed amount the same percentage increase as that applied for the purposes of additional pensions under section 150(1)(c) and 151(1) of the Administration Act.

(7) Where the assessed amount comprises income from capital, it shall be deemed to increase or decrease—

(a) on the first day of the next benefit week to commence [F6 on or after] the day on which the income increases or decreases; and

(b) by an amount equal to the change in the claimant’s income produced by applying to his income changes made to the yields capital is deemed to produce, or to the capital amounts, specified in regulation 15(6), or to both if both are changed.

F7 (8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 10(1)(c) added (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2274), regs. 1, 2(6)

F2 Reg. 10(2)(a) substituted (18.12.2005) by The State Pension Credit (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3205), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)

F3 Reg. 10(5)-(5B) substituted for reg. 10(5) (5.4.2004) by The State Pension Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/647), regs. 1, 3(2)

F4 Words in reg. 10(5B) omitted (18.12.2005) by virtue of The State Pension Credit (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3205), regs. 1, 2(2)(b)

F5 Reg. 10(6)(a) substituted (5.4.2004) by The State Pension Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/647), regs. 1, 3(3)

F6 Words in reg. 10(7)(a) substituted (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019), regs. 1(2)(b), 23(e)

F7 Reg. 10(8) omitted (2.10.2006) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), regs. 1(3), 14(3)