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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2008/schedule/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110843285",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2008",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) A lone parent falls within this Part of this Schedule if —\n(a) the person was entitled to income support as a lone parent immediately before the relevant day;\n(b) paragraph 1 is the only paragraph of Schedule 1B to the Income Support Regulations (prescribed categories of person) that applies to the lone parent; and\n(c) on the relevant day that person is responsible for—\n(i) a single child aged 6, 7, 8 or 9, or\n(ii) more than one child where the youngest child is aged 6, 7, 8 or 9,\nwho is a member of that person’s household.\n(2) A person does not fall or (as the case may be) ceases to fall within this Part of this Schedule if —\n(a) that person falls within Part 2 of this Schedule; or\n(b) on or after the relevant day—\n(i) that person makes a further claim to income support, or\n(ii) regulation 13 applies to that person.\n(3) In this Part of this Schedule, “relevant day” means 25th October 2010.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110843285/schedule/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:54.815170+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."
}