State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16)

State pension credit: entitlement and amount E+W+S

[F1 3ZA Power to limit savings credit for certain mixed-age couples E+W+S

(1) Regulations may provide that, in prescribed cases, a person who is a member of a mixed-age couple is not entitled to a savings credit.

(2) For example, the regulations could provide that a member of a mixed-age couple is not entitled to a savings credit unless—

(a) the person has been awarded a savings credit with effect from a day before 6 April 2016 and was entitled to a savings credit immediately before that date, and

(b) the person remained entitled to state pension credit at all times since the beginning of 6 April 2016.

(3) In this section “mixed-age couple” means a couple (whenever formed) one member of which had attained pensionable age before 6 April 2016 and the other had not.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 3ZA inserted (7.7.2015) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 12 para. 90; S.I. 2015/1475, art. 2(2)(d)