{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-and-transitional-and-savings-provision-regulations-2017/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-and-transitional-and-savings-provision-regulations-2017/regulation-6.json",
  "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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) 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) of regulation 55 (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”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/214; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2008/1082, 2013/630 and 2017/204."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/581/regulation/6",
    "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."
}