{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/covid-19-heating-payment-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2021/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/covid-19-heating-payment-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2021/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2021/1",
  "legislation_title": "The Covid-19 Heating Payment Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/covid-19-heating-payment-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Payment to be disregarded for social security",
  "text": "(1) No account shall be taken of eligibility for a Covid-19 heating payment in considering a person’s entitlement to a Social Fund payment, a discretionary support award or a payment under any of the following social security benefits:\n(a) income support;\n(b) jobseekers allowance;\n(c) employment and support allowance;\n(d) housing benefit (working age);\n(e) housing benefit (state pension credit age);\n(f) universal credit; or\n(g) state pension credit.\n(2) This payment may be taxable.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 6 in operation at 25.1.2021, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/1/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:40:40.892293+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}