State pension credit: entitlement and amount

Exclusions
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1
A claimant is not entitled to state pension credit if he is a member of a couple the other member of which is entitled to state pension credit.
1A
A claimant is not entitled to state pension credit if he is a member of a couple the other member of which has not attained the qualifying age.
2
In section 115(1) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33)
(exclusion of certain persons from benefits) in the words preceding paragraph (a), after “Jobseekers Act 1995” insert “ or to state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act 2002 ”.
3
Where the amount payable by way of state pension credit would (apart from this subsection) be less than a prescribed amount, it shall not be payable except in prescribed circumstances.
S. 4 partly in force; s. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 22(3); s. 4 in force for certain purposes at 2.7.2002 by S.I. 2002/1691, art. 2
S. 4 in force at 6.10.2003 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2003/1766, art. 2(a)
Words in s. 4(1) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(d), Sch. 24 para. 140; S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
S. 4(1A) inserted (15.5.2019) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), s. 150(3), Sch. 2 para. 64; S.I. 2019/37, art. 3 (with arts. 4, 6-8) (as amended: (14.5.2019) by S.I. 2019/935; (25.11.2020) by S.I. 2020/655; (14.3.2022) by S.I. 2022/302; (25.7.2022) by S.I. 2022/752); and (with effect from 8.6.2024) by S.I. 2024/604)