PART VII AMOUNTS
Payments by way of Pensions81
1
The deduction in respect of pension payments from the amount which apart from this regulation would be payable to a claimant by way of a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance for any week shall be a sum equal to the amount by which that payment exceeds or, as the case may be, the aggregate of those payments exceed £50 per F2benefit week.
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Where pension payments first begin to be made to a person for a period starting other than on the first day of a benefit week, the deduction referred to in paragraph (1) shall have effect from the beginning of that benefit week.
1B
Where pension payments are already in payment to a person and a change in the rate or payment takes effect in a week other than at the beginning of the benefit week, the deduction referred to in paragraph (1) shall have effect from the first day of that benefit week.
2
In determining the amount of any pension payments for the purposes of paragraph (1), there shall be disregarded—
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any payments from a personal pension scheme, an occupational pension scheme or a public service pension scheme which are payable to him and which arose in accordance with the terms of such a scheme on the death of a person who was a member of the scheme in question.
3
Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), where a pension payment, or an aggregate of such payments, as the case may be, is paid to a person for a period other than a week, such payments shall be treated as being made to that person by way of weekly pension payments and the weekly amount shall be determined—
a
where payment is made for a year, by dividing the total by 52;
b
where payment is made for three months, by dividing the total by 13;
c
where payment is made for a month, by multiplying the total by 12 and dividing the result by 52;
d
where payment is made for two or more months, otherwise than for a year or for three months, by dividing the total by the number of months, multiplying the result by 12 and dividing the result of that multiplication by 52; or
e
in any other case, by dividing the amount of the payment by the number of days in the period for which it is made and multiplying the result by 7.