State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 No. 14

State pension credit: entitlement and amount N.I.

[F1 Power to limit savings credit for certain mixed-age couples N.I.

3ZA— (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. ]

F1 S. 3ZA inserted (14.9.2015) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 12 para. 74; S.R. 2015/329, art. 2(2)(c)