{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987/schedule-3/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987/schedule-3/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1973",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any arrears of, or any concessionary payment made to compensate for arrears due to non-payment of—\n(a) any payment specified in paragraphs 4, 6 or 7 of Schedule 2;\n(b) an income-related benefit or income-based jobseeker’s allowance, or supplementary benefit under the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 , family income supplement under the Family Income Supplements Act 1970 or housing benefit under Part II of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 ,\n(c) any earnings top-up,\nbut only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of the receipt of the arrears or of the concessionary payment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 8(b) inserted (7.10.1996) by The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1345), regs. 1, 8(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 8(c) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes and Social Fund (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1944), regs 1(1)(a), (4), 13, Sch. para. 7(1), 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1976 c. 71."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1970 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1982 c. 24."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1973/schedule/3/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:34:16.817264+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."
}