State pension credit: entitlement and amount

Power to limit savings credit for certain mixed-age couples
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.
S. 3ZA inserted (7.7.2015) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 12 para. 90; S.I. 2015/1475, art. 2(2)(d)