Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1975/556 |
- “the Act” means
the Social Security Act 1975; - F120“the 2012 Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2012;
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F148“benefit”—
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(a) includes—
- (i) a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance;
- (ii) a contributory employment and support allowance;
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(b) does not include—
- (i) an income-based jobseeker’s allowance;
- (ii) an income-related employment and support allowance;
- (iii) a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014;
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(a) includes—
- F35“the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;
- F121“contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance” means an allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995 as amended by the provisions of Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the 2012 Act that remove references to an income-based allowance, and a contribution-based allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995 as that Act has effect apart from those provisions;
- F122“contributory employment and support allowance” means an allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act as amended by the provisions of Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the 2012 Act that remove references to an income-related allowance, and a contributory allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act as that Part has effect apart from those provisions;
- “credits” and “a credit”
shall be construed in accordance with regulation 3;
...... ... - F38“income-based jobseeker’s allowance”has the same meaning as in the Jobseekers Act 1995;
- F84“income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (employment and support allowance) ;
- F38“jobseeker’s allowance”means an allowance payable under Part I of the Jobseekers Act 1995; ......
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F39“reckonable year” means a year for which the relevant earnings factor of the contributor concerned was sufficient to satisfy—
- (a) in relation to short-term incapacity benefit, widowed mother’s allowance, F82widowed parent’s allowance, ... widow’s pension or Category A or Category B retirement pension, paragraph (b) of the second contribution condition specified in relation to that benefit in Schedule 3 to the Contributions and Benefits Act; ...
- (b) in relation to contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance, the additional condition specified in section 2(3) of the Jobseekers Act 1995;F86or
- (c) F86in relation to a contributory employment and support allowance, the condition specified in paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 1 to the Welfare Reform Act (conditions relating to national insurance) .
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F40“relevant benefit year” has the same meaning as it has—
- (a) in relation to short-term incapacity benefit, in paragraph 2(6) (b) of Schedule 3 to the Contributions and Benefits Act; ...
- (b) in relation to contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance, in section 2(4) (b) of the Jobseekers Act 1995;F88and
- (c) F88in relation to a contributory employment and support allowance, in paragraph 3(1) (f) of Schedule 1 to the Welfare Reform Act (conditions relating to national insurance) ;
- “relevant earnings factor”, F5in relation to any benefit, means—
- (a) F41if the benefit is a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance or if the contributions relevant to the benefit under section 21 of the Contributions and Benefits Act are Class 1 contributions, the earnings factor derived from earnings upon which primary Class 1 contributions have been paid or treated as paid, or credited earnings;
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(b) if the contributions relevant to that benefit under F42that section are Class 1 and Class 2 contributions, the earnings factor or the aggregate of the earnings factors derived from—
- (i) earnings primary Class 1 contributions have been paid or treated as paid, or credited earnings, and
- (ii) Class 3 contributions;
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(c) if the contributions relevant to that benefit under F42that section are Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3 contributions, the earnings factor or the aggregate of the earnings factors derived from—
- (i) earnings upon which primary contributions have been paid or treated as paid, or credited earnings,
- (ii) Class 2 contributions, and
- (iii) Class 3 contributions paid or credited
- F21“relevant past year” means the last complete year before the beginning of the relevant benefit year;
- F123“universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the 2012 Act;
- F89“the Welfare Reform Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2007;
- F55“widowed parent’s allowance” means an allowance referred to in section 39A of the Contributions and Benefits Act;
- F65“working tax credit” means a working tax credit under section 10 of the Tax Credits Act 2002
- F20“year” means tax year;
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