SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6REDUCED RATE ELECTIONS: EFFECT ON RATE OF SECTION 4 PENSION

Recalculation of transitional rate where circumstances change

4

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.