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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 November 2019 - onwards
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Regulation 59 Credits on receipt of prescribed relative's allowance and State pension (transition).

(1) Subject to these Regulations, an employment contribution shall be credited to an insured person for each week in respect of which an allowance under section 167 has been paid in respect of such person.

(2) Employment contributions shall not be credited under sub-article (1) until the cessation of the said allowance.

(3) Employment contributions credited under sub-article (1) shall be reckonable for all benefits under the Principal Act.

(4) An employment contribution shall not be credited under sub-article (1) unless an employment contribution reckonable for benefits including jobseeker’s benefit or jobseeker's benefit (self-employed), have been paid or credited in respect of the insured person in either of the two complete contribution years immediately preceding the date from which an allowance under section 167 was payable.

(5) Subject to sub-article (6), an employment contribution shall be credited to an insured person for each week in respect of which that person is in receipt of State pension (transition).