Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the State Pension Credit (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 6th April 2016.

Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002

2. —(1)The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002( 5 ) are amended as follows.

(2) After regulation 7(savings credit), insert—

“ Limitation of savings credit for certain mixed-age couples

7A. A person who is a member of a mixed-age couple, is not entitled to a savings credit unless one of the members of the couple—

(a) has been awarded a savings credit with effect from a day before 6th April 2016 and was entitled to a savings credit immediately before 6th April 2016, and

(b) remained entitled to a savings credit at all times since the beginning of 6th April 2016. ” .

(3) In regulation 12 (end of assessed income period)—

(a) omit “at such time as”;

(b) at the start of sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), insert “at such time as”;

(c) at the end of sub-paragraph (c), add—

“ ;

(d) if, apart from this sub-paragraph, it would have ended on a date falling within the period specified in column 1 of the table in Schedule IIIA, on the corresponding date shown against that period in column 2 of that table ” .

(4) After Schedule III (special groups), insert—

Regulation 12

“ SCHEDULE IIIA Date on which certain fixed length assessed income periods end