Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004
Enacted various provisions. It prohibited unfair discrimination in the provision of occupational pensions on the grounds of sexual orientation. This covers individuals only. This does not make a requirement for pension schemes to pay a death grant to the surviving partner of a same-sex relationship. It also limited the provision of social welfare to married couples and unmarried opposite-sex couple. Same-sex couples were to be treated as individuals and thus are ineligible for social welfare that opposite-sex cohabiting couple may benefit from. Many of these provisions have been changed under the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010.
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