{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/schedule-5/paragraph-47",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/213",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/47",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a claimant’s applicable amount includes an amount by way of family premium Where a claimant’s family includes at least one child or young person, £15 of any payment of maintenance, other than child maintenance, whether under a court order or not, which is made or due to be made by the claimant’s former partner, or the claimant’s partner’s former partner.\n(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1) where more than one maintenance payment falls to be taken into account in any week, all such payments shall be aggregated and treated as if they were a single payment.\n(3) A payment made by the Secretary of State in lieu of maintenance shall, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), be treated as a payment of maintenance made by a person specified in sub-paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 47-47A substituted (27.10.2008) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1042), regs. 1(3), 3(12)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 47(1) substituted (1.5.2016) by The Housing Benefit (Abolition of the Family Premium and date of claim) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1857), regs. 1(b), 2(1)(e) (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1072",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1072",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/213/schedule/5/paragraph/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:43.605354+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."
}