SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 6REDUCED RATE ELECTIONS: EFFECT ON RATE OF SECTION 4 PENSION
Recalculation of transitional rate where circumstances change
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If the woman is married or in a civil partnership on reaching pensionable age but the marriage or civil partnership comes to an end (because of the death of her spouse or civil partner or otherwise)—
a
her transitional rate is to be recalculated applying paragraph 3(2), and
b
Schedule 2 (up-rating) applies as if the recalculated rate had been the woman's transitional rate on the day on which she reached pensionable age.
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1
If neither of paragraphs 2 and 3 applies to the woman but she subsequently comes within paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph 2(1)—
a
her transitional rate is to be recalculated applying paragraph 2(2), and
b
Schedule 2 (up-rating) applies as if the recalculated rate had been the woman's transitional rate on the day on which she reached pensionable age.
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But the woman's rate is not to be recalculated under sub-paragraph (1) if it has already been recalculated under paragraph 4.
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Nothing in paragraph 4 or 5 affects—
a
the amount of state pension to which a woman is entitled for periods before that paragraph applies to her, or
b
the amount of any increase under section 17 in a case where the period for which the woman's state pension is deferred has ended before that paragraph applies to her.