{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/household-fuel-payments-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/household-fuel-payments-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/70",
  "legislation_title": "The Household Fuel Payments Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/household-fuel-payments-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Eligibility",
  "text": "(1) A person is not eligible for a household fuel payment unless he is a qualifying person.\n(2) A person is a qualifying person for the purposes of sub- paragraph (1) if he is a householder who was in receipt of :\n(a) state pension credit (except where the recipient is resident in a nursing home or residential care home);\n(b) income support and housing benefit;\n(c) income support and a housing loan; or\n(d) income support and both housing benefit and a housing loan.\non any one day during the qualifying week.\n(3) Where a qualifying person is part of a couple, the other member of that couple shall not be treated as a qualifying person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/70/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:33:01.218213+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."
}