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106.—(1) A claimant is to be treated as possessing income of which the claimant has deprived himself for the purpose of securing entitlement to an employment and support allowance or increasing the amount of that allowance, or for the purpose of securing entitlement to, or increasing the amount of, income support or a jobseeker’s allowance.
(2) Except in the case of—
(a)a discretionary trust;
(b)a trust derived from a payment made in consequence of a personal injury;
(c)an employment and support allowance;
(d)a jobseeker’s allowance;
(e)working tax credit;
(f)child tax credit;
(g)a personal pension scheme, occupational pension scheme or a payment made by the Board of the Pension Protection Fund where the claimant is aged under 60; or
(h)any sum to which paragraph 42(2)(a) of Schedule 9 (capital to be disregarded) applies which is administered in the way referred to in paragraph 42(1)(a) of that Schedule,
income which would become available to the claimant upon application being made but which has not been acquired by the claimant is to be treated as possessed by the claimant but only from the date on which it could be expected to be acquired were an application made.
(3) A claimant who has attained the age of 60 is to be treated as possessing—
(a)the amount of any income from an occupational pension scheme, a personal pension scheme or the Board of the Pension Protection Fund—
(i)for which no claim has been made, and
(ii)to which the claimant might expect to be entitled if a claim for it were made;
(b)income from an occupational pension scheme which the claimant elected to defer,
but only from the date on which it could be expected to be acquired were an application for it to be made.
(4) This paragraph applies where a claimant aged not less than 60—
(a)is entitled to money purchase benefits under an occupational pension scheme or a personal pension scheme;
(b)fails to purchase an annuity with the funds available in that scheme; and
(c)either—
(i)defers in whole or in part the payment of any income which would have been payable to the claimant by that claimant’s pension fund holder, or
(ii)fails to take any necessary action to secure that the whole of any income which would be payable to the person by that claimant’s pension fund holder upon the person applying for it, is so paid, or
(iii)income withdrawal is not available to the claimant under that scheme.
(5) Where paragraph (4) applies, the amount of any income foregone is to be treated as possessed by that claimant, but only from the date on which it could be expected to be acquired were an application for it to be made.
(6) The amount of any income foregone in a case where paragraph (4)(c)(i) or (ii) applies is to be the maximum amount of income which may be withdrawn from the fund and is to be determined by the Department which shall take account of information provided by the pension fund holder in accordance with regulation 7(5) of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1).
(7) The amount of any income foregone in a case where paragraph (4)(c)(iii) applies is to be the income that the claimant could have received without purchasing an annuity had the funds held under the relevant occupational or personal pension scheme been held under a scheme where income withdrawal was available and is to be determined in the manner specified in paragraph (6).
(8) In paragraph (4), “money purchase benefits” has the meaning given by section 176(1) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993(2).
S.R. 1987 No. 465; regulation 7(5) was added by regulation 5(3) of S.R. 1995 No. 367
1993 c. 49; the definition of “money purchase benefits” was amended by paragraph 19 of the Schedule to S.R. 2005 No. 434
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