11.—(1) The Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1988(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation), in the definition of “benefit” after “the Social Security Act 1975” insert “, a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014”.
(3) In regulation 5 (offsetting prior payment against subsequent award)—
(a)in paragraph (2) after “section 55A” insert “or 55AA”;
(b)in paragraph (6) after sub-paragraph (b) insert(2)—
“(c)sections 8 or 9 of the Pensions Act 2014; or
(d)Regulations under section 10 of that Act which make provision corresponding or similar to sections 8 or 9 of that Act,”.
(4) In regulation 8(1) (duplication and prescribed payments) before sub-paragraph (a) insert—
“(za)a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014;”.
(5) After regulation 15(2)(a) (recovery by deduction from prescribed benefits) insert—
“(aa)a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014;”.
S.I. 1988/664. A relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2005/1551.
Paragraph (6) was inserted by S.I. 2006/516.