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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008/schedule-8/paragraph-22",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/794",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), except where regulation 104(8)(b) (provision of support under section 95 or 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act including support provided by virtue of regulations made under Schedule 9 to that Act in the calculation of income other than earnings) or regulation 107(3)(a) (notional income) applies, any income in kind;\n(2) The exception under sub-paragraph (1) will not apply where the income in kind is a Grenfell Tower payment, a child abuse payment or a Windrush payment or is received from the Macfarlane Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) (No.2) Trust, the Fund, the Eileen Trust, MFET Limited, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme, an approved blood scheme, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund, the National Emergencies Trust or the Independent Living Fund (2006).\n(3) The first exception under sub-paragraph (1) will not apply where the claimant is the partner of a person subject to immigration control and whose partner is receiving support provided under section 95 or 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act including support provided by virtue of regulations made under Schedule 9 to that Act and the income in kind is support provided in respect of essential living needs of the partner of the claimant and the claimant's dependants (if any) as is specified in regulations made under paragraph 3 of Schedule 8 to the Immigration and Asylum Act.\n(4) The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to “income in kind” does not include a payment to a third party made in respect of the claimant which is used by the third party to provide benefits in kind to the claimant.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 22(2) inserted (15.7.2020) by The Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/618), regs. 1, 7(11)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 22(2) inserted (1.1.2022) by The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1405), regs. 1, 7(7)(a)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 22(2) inserted (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/641), regs. 1(1), 12(3)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 22(2) inserted (31.10.2011) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2425), regs. 1(2), 23(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 22(2) inserted (3.4.2017) by The Social Security (Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/329), regs. 1, 8(3)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 22(2) inserted (23.10.2017) by The Social Security (Infected Blood and Thalidomide) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/870), regs. 1, 8(3)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 22(2) inserted (19.6.2017) by The Social Security (Emergency Funds) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/689), regs. 1, 8(3)(e)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 22(2) inserted (15.7.2020) by The Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/618), regs. 1, 7(11)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 22(2) substituted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2428), regs. 1(2), 18(b)"
    }
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      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1072",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 2026"
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1072",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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