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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008/schedule-9/paragraph-17",
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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/9/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any payment made to the claimant or the claimant's partner in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant or, as the case may be, the claimant's partner.\n(2) But sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) applies only for the period of 52 weeks beginning with the day on which the claimant first receives any payment in consequence of that personal injury;\n(b) does not apply to any subsequent payment made to the claimant in consequence of that injury (whether it is made by the same person or another);\n(c) ceases to apply to the payment or any part of the payment from the day on which the claimant no longer possesses it;\n(d) does not apply to any payment from a trust where the funds of the trust are derived from a payment made in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant.\n(3) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (2)(c), the circumstances in which a claimant no longer possesses a payment or a part of it include where the claimant has used a payment or part of it to purchase an asset.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 17(2)(a) substituted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2428), regs. 1(2), 19(a)"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 2026"
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 2026"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/794/schedule/9/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:37:55.280707+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."
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