{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-and-transitional-and-savings-provision-regulations-2017/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/581",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provision) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-and-transitional-and-savings-provision-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 are amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in the definition for “main phase employment and support allowance” after “Welfare Reform Act” insert “or the claimant is a member of the work-related activity group, ”;\n(b) in the definition for “member of the work-related activity group” for “claimant” substitute “person”.\n(3) In paragraph (8)(c)(ii) of regulation 7 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home)—\n(a) omit “23 or”;\n(b) after “of that Schedule” insert “or the claimant or the claimant’s partner is a member of the work-related activity group”.\n(4) In paragraph (8)(a) of regulation 74 (non-dependant deductions) for “or where the non-dependant is not a member of the work-related activity group” substitute “and where the non-dependant is not a member of the work-related activity group”.\n(5) In paragraph 1A(a) of Schedule 3 (applicable amounts) after “personally” insert “or the claimant is personally a member of the work-related activity group”.\n(6) In paragraph 17(2)(b)(iv)(bb) of Schedule 4 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings) omit “and is engaged in remunerative work for on average not less than 16 hours per week”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/213; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2008/1042, 2008/1082, 2009/583, 2010/1907, 2013/443, 2013/630 and 2017/204."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/581/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:08.338582+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."
}