Looks at provisions for inheriting additional State Pension and transitional arrangements following the introduction of the new State Pension in April 2016. A new State Pension (nSP) was introduced on 6 April 2016, for people reaching State Pension age on or after that date. The Coalition Government said it intended people to qualify on the basis of their own NI record and that there was “no rationale” for allowing them to inherit or derive state pension income based on the NI record of their spouse or civil partner.
However, there is transitional protection to cover pre-implementation NI records. There would be no change where both members of a couple reach, or would have reached, SPA before the nSP was introduced. In other cases, the transitional arrangements would depend on when the survivor and deceased reach SPA.
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