{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348268843",
  "legislation_title": "The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Support scheme top-up (core) award",
  "text": "(1) The infected core award in relation to an eligible infected person who is an infected SSP recipient (“P”) must include an amount by way of a support scheme top-up (core) award for the purpose of securing that P is no worse off because of any difference between—\n(a) the future amounts of the basic financial loss award, the additional financial loss (core) award and the care (core) award that P would receive under this Chapter if P were not an infected SSP recipient, and\n(b) the amount of the support scheme payments that P will receive in relation to periods after 31st March 2025.\n(2) The amount of the support scheme top-up (core) award in relation to an infected SSP recipient (“P”) is (F + C) – (S × (Y3 + 0.75)), where—\n(a) “F” is the sum of—\n(i) the future amount of the basic financial loss award (for “future amount”, see regulation 7(3)), and\n(ii) the future amount of the additional financial loss (core) award;\n(b) “C” is the future amount of the care (core) award;\n(c) “S” is the sum of the annual amounts of any support scheme payments payable in relation to P immediately before 1st April 2025;\n(d) “Y3”has the meaning given in regulation 7(4)(e).\n(3) Where the amount of the support scheme top-up (core) award is less than £0, that amount is to be treated as £0.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348268843/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:35.762697+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."
}