Part III Non-Contributory Benefits
Benefits for the aged
79 Age addition.
(1)
A person who is over the age of 80 and entitled to a retirement pension of any category shall be entitled to an increase of the pension, to be known as “age addition”.
(2)
Where a person is in receipt of a pension or allowance payable by virtue of any prescribed enactment or instrument (whether passed or made before or after this Act) and—
(a)
he is over the age of 80; and
(b)
he fulfils such other conditions as may be prescribed,
he shall be entitled to an increase of that pension or allowance, also known as age addition.
(3)
Age addition shall be payable for the life of the person entitled, at the weekly rate specified in Schedule 4, Part III, paragraph 8.