Introduction
1. This Schedule sets out how to up-rate the rate of a person’s state pension under section 13.
2. In this Schedule a reference to the rate of a person’s state pension is to the rate—
(a)ignoring any reduction under section 7(4) (in the case of a state pension under section 7),
(b)taking into account any reduction under section 14 (in the case of a state pension under section 4), and
(c)ignoring any increase under section 17.
3.—(1) In this Schedule “the total amount of any state pension that has priority”, in relation to a person’s state pension under section 13, means the sum of—
(a)the rate of any state pension to which the person is entitled under section 2, 4 or 12,
(b)the rate of any state pension to which the person is entitled under section 7, and
(c)the rate of any earlier state pension to which the person is entitled under section 13 (see sub-paragraph (2)).
(2) Where a person is entitled to two or more state pensions under section 13 because he or she has become entitled to two or more state scheme pension credits, a pension arising because of an earlier credit is an “earlier” state pension for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c).