Section 61 — Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992: Exclusion of increase of benefit for failure to satisfy contribution condition.

Exclusion of increase of benefit for failure to satisfy contribution condition. 61 1 A Category A or Category B retirement pension which is payable by virtue of section 60(1) above and a widowed mother’s allowance or widowed parent’s allowance which is so payable shall not be increased under section 47(1) above or under Part IV below ... if the pension or allowance contains no basic pension in consequence of a failure to satisfy a contribution condition.

2 Where a person is entitled to short-term incapacity benefit at a rate determined under section 30B(3) above and the retirement pension by reference to which the rate of the benefit is determined—

a would have been payable only by virtue of section 60 above, and b would, in consequence of a failure to satisfy a contribution condition, have contained no basic pension, the benefit shall not be increased under section 47(1) above or under Part IV below ...