{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-payments-on-account-of-benefit-regulations-2013/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-payments-on-account-of-benefit-regulations-2013/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111531532",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Payments on Account of Benefit) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-payments-on-account-of-benefit-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Payment on account of benefit where there is no award of benefit",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may make a payment on account of benefit to A if—\n(a) either of paragraphs (2) or (3) applies;\n(b) it appears to the Secretary of State likely that the conditions of entitlement for benefit are satisfied; and\n(c) the Secretary of State is satisfied that A is in financial need.\n(2) This paragraph applies where A has made a claim for benefit but the claim has not yet been determined.\n(3) This paragraph applies where A is not required to make a claim for benefit by virtue of—\n(a) regulation 6 or 7 of the UC etc. Claims and Payments Regulations (claims not required for entitlement to universal credit or an employment and support allowance in certain cases); or, as the case may be,\n(b) regulation 3 of the Claims and Payments Regulations (claims not required for entitlement to benefit in certain cases) ,\nbut an award of benefit has not yet been made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 3 has been amended by S.I. 1989/136, 1994/2943, 1999/2556, 1999/3178, 2000/1483, 2001/488, 2003/1589, 2005/1551, 2007/2470, 2008/441, 2008/1554, 2008/2667, 2009/1490 and 2010/840 and 1794."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111531532/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:50:59.212035+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."
}