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# The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 6) Regulations 2025

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2025 No. 865
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 6) Regulations 2025
Made
15th July 2025
Laid before Parliament
16th July 2025
Coming into force
7th August 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. 6) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 7th August 2025.

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

In paragraph 31 of 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), for sub-paragraph (1) substitute—
(1) A payment of compensation made by the Department for Business and Trade to a person eligible under the Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme announced by His Majesty’s Government on 13th March 2024 who—
(a) has a conviction involving the Horizon System quashed by legislation or by a court,
(b) received a caution of any kind for an offence involving the Horizon system,
(c) in Scotland received an alternative to prosecution within the definition given in section 4(5) of the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences (Scotland) Act 2024, or received a purported alternative to prosecution from Post Office Limited, or
(d) was the subject of a criminal prosecution involving the Horizon system but was not convicted.
.