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# The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 7) Regulations 2025

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2025 No. 1132
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 7) Regulations 2025
Made
28th October 2025
Laid before Parliament
29th October 2025
Coming into force
20th November 2025
The Treasury make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(2) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, and section 3(2) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and now exercisable by them.
The Secretary of State and the Department for Communities concur in the making of these Regulations.

## 1 Citation and commencement {#regulation-1}

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 7) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 20th November 2025.

## 2 Amendment of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001 {#regulation-2}

In Part 10 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001 (payments to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings for the purposes of earnings-related contributions) after paragraph 32 insert—
Post Office Capture Redress Scheme payments
33 (1) A payment of compensation made by the Department for Business and Trade to a person under the Post Office Capture Redress Scheme or to a nominated individual.
(2) A relevant onward payment of a payment defined in paragraph (1).
(3) In this paragraph—
“the Capture system” means any version of the computer system used by Post Office Limited known as Capture or the Capture Accounting System;
“nominated individual” means any person who was a shareholder or a director of a company or a partner in a partnership which ceased to exist and that would have been eligible for compensation under the Post Office Capture Redress Scheme;
“Post Office Capture Redress Scheme” means the scheme announced by His Majesty’s Government on 19th June 2025 to compensate people adversely affected by the Capture system;
“Post Office Limited” has the same meaning as in paragraph 26(3);
“relevant onward payment” has the same meaning as in paragraph 28(5).
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