The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews etc.) (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Amendment Regulations 2010

Amendment of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000

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3.  Regulation 6 of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000(1) (continuing entitlement dependent upon an interview) is amended as follows—

(a)in paragraph (1) for “the age of 60” substitute “pensionable age”(2);

(b)in paragraph (5) before the definition of “personal capability assessment” insert—

“pensionable age”, in the case of a man born before 6th April 1955, means the age when a woman born on the same day as the man would attain pensionable age;.

(1)

S.I. 2000/897. Regulation 6 was revoked by regulation 16(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2002/1703 but is saved for transitional cases by paragraph (2) of that regulation for the period specified in paragraph (3). Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2005/2727.

(2)

For the meaning of “pensionable age” see the definition in section 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 as substituted by paragraph 14 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act 1995.