
1995 No. 2559
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security (Effect of Family Credit on Earnings Factors) Regulations 1995
 Made 2nd October 1995
 Laid before Parliament 6th October 1995
 Coming into force 1st November 1995
 The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45A(2), 122(1) and 175(1) to (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, by this instrument, which contains only regulations made in consequence of section 127 of the Pensions Act 1995, hereby makes the following Regulations:
 Citation and commencement
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Effect of Family Credit on Earnings Factors) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st November 1995.
 Prescribed member of a married or unmarried couple for the purposes of section 45A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992
2 
For the purposes of section 45A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (which provides for disabled person’s tax credit and working families' tax credit to be taken into account in the calculation of the additional pension in a Category A retirement pension) where working families' tax credit is paid to one of a married or unmarried couple, the prescribed member of the couple referred to in subsection (2)(a) of that section is—
(a) where only one member is assessed for the purposes of the award of working families' tax credit as having income consisting of earnings, that member;
(b) where both members are so assessed, the member with the higher earnings; or
(c) where the earnings of each member are assessed as equal, the member to whom working families' tax credit is paid.
 Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
 Oliver Heald
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
