{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-exempt-work-hardship-amounts-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/205",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Exempt Work & Hardship Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-exempt-work-hardship-amounts-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008",
  "text": "In regulation 64D of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 (the amount of a hardship payment) for paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) A hardship payment is either—\n(a) 80% of the prescribed amount for a single claimant as set out in paragraph (1)(a) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 where—\n(i) the claimant has an award of employment and support allowance which does not include entitlement to a work-related activity component under section 4(2)(b) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 as in force immediately before 3rd April 2017; and\n(ii) the claimant or any other member of their family is either pregnant or seriously ill; or\n(b) 60% of the prescribed amount for a single claimant as set out in paragraph (1)(a) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 in any other case.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 64D inserted by S.I. 2012/2756."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Part 1 of Schedule 4 was substituted by Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2013/574. The figures in paragraph 1(a) were substituted by Welfare Benefits Up-rating Order 2015/30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/205/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:14:42.811300+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."
}