State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002

Effect of guaranteed minimum pension on social security benefits

Equal treatment for widows and widowers

18.  In section 43(1) of the Pension Schemes Act (further provisions concerning entitlement to guaranteed minimum pensions for the purposes of section 42)—

(a) after “an earner” insert “in any case where he is entitled to a benefit other than a widowed parent’s allowance”;

(b) for paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) he is also entitled to a Category B retirement pension by virtue of the earner’s contributions (or would be so entitled but for section 43(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992); or”; and

(c) in paragraph (b), for “section 41(7) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992” substitute “section 41(5) of that Act”.