The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 No. 2053

SCHEDULE Amendments of provisions of Acts relating to pensions and benefit payments, extending those provisions to civil partners and surviving civil partners

PART 2 Amendments of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)

8.  In section 150 (annual up-rating of benefits)(1), in subsection (1)(dza), after “surviving spouses” insert “or civil partners”.

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Section 150(1)(dza) was inserted by paragraph 21 of Schedule 11 to the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35).