The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999

[F11.  Where the amount of state pension credit payable under an award is changed by a superseding decision made on the ground that there has been a relevant change of circumstances, that superseding decision shall take effect from the following days—E+W+S

(a) for the purpose only of determining the day on which an assessed income period begins under section 9 of the State Pension Credit Act , from the day following the day on which the last previous assessed income period ended; and

[F2(b)except as provided in the following paragraphs–

(i)where state pension credit is paid in advance, from the day that change occurs or is expected to occur if either of those days is the first day of a benefit week but if it is not from the next following such day;

(ii)where state pension credit is paid in arrears, from the first day of the benefit week in which that change occurs or is expected to occur.]]

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