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staff-023: What happens to Pension Credit if someone moves abroad?

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source-c002: DMG Vol 2 Ch 7 Part 6: SDA, SPC, WB/Bereavement Benefit and Winter Fuel Payments [076960 to 078059] — PDF page 8

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SPC absence introduction; continuation and temporary/permanent absence conditions needed.

077001 SPC can continue to be paid whilst a claimant is temporarily absent from GB 1 if the other
conditions of entitlement continue to be satisfied and the absence is no longer than


1. 4 weeks where the absence is not expected to exceed 4 weeks2 or


2. 8 weeks3 where paragraph 077002 applies or


3. 26 weeks4 where paragraph 077003 applies.


Note: See DMG 04642 for effective dates for supersession.


                                                 1 SPC Regs, reg 3; 2 reg 3(1)(a); 3 reg 3(1)(b); 4 reg 3(1)(c)


Example 1


Jason notifies the DM that he is going abroad for 3 weeks. The DM decides that he remains entitled for
those 3 weeks. He contracts food poisoning and has to extend his stay by a further 2 weeks. As Jason’s

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source-c008: DMG Vol 13 Ch 77: Conditions of entitlement, membership of the household and normal amount payable — PDF page 14

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Captured Pension Credit entitlement conditions; statutory and transitional dependencies remain.

77031 A claimant is entitled to SPC if they1


1. are in GB and


2. have reached the qualifying age and


3. satisfy the conditions to get a GC or SC and


4. are not a member of a


      4.1 couple where the other member is entitled to SPC or


      4.2 mixed-age couple (see DMG 77035 and 77140)


      4.3 polygamous marriage (see DMG 77016) where the other party to the marriage or the additional
      spouse are members of the same household and entitled to SPC (but see DMG 77140 et seq) and


5. have made a valid claim2 and


6. where relevant, their partner, satisfy the NI provisions (see DMG Chapter 02) 3.


           1 SPC Act 02, s 1(2) & 4(1) & (1A); SPC Regs, Sch III, para 1(3); 2 SS A Act 92, s 1(1) & (4); 3 s 1(1A)

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source-c009: DMG Vol 13 Ch 77: Conditions of entitlement, membership of the household and normal amount payable — PDF page 15

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Age, GB presence and mixed-age-couple conditions with savings provisions and routes.

77035 For the purposes of entitlement to SPC, a mixed-age couple is one where one member has

reached the qualifying age and the other has not.1 This definition includes a polygamous marriage where
at least one party to the polygamous marriage has reached the qualifying age and at least one party has
not2.


Note 1: This definition applies only to new claims to SPC from 15.5.19. Savings provisions have effect as

though the exclusion of mixed-age couples from SPC had not come into force 2. So a member of a mixed-
age couple who was entitled to SPC or pension age HB or both on 14.5.19, continues to be so entitled on
or after 15.5.19. The savings provisions cease to have effect to a member of a mixed-age couple on or
after 15.5.19 when that person is no longer entitled to SPC or pension age HB as part of the same mixed-
age couple.


Note 2: Where one of a mixed age couple is a PSIC, SPC is paid to the claimant as a single person. 3
However, if entitlement to HB arose before 15.05.19, and that HB is in payment to them as a couple then,
once the partner is no longer a PSIC, they can be a couple for SPC.


Note 3: For detailed guidance on the treatment of mixed-age couples where a claimant who has reached
the SPC qualifying age would otherwise not be entitled to SPC or UC, see DMG 77140 et seq.

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