{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1967",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Date on which income is treated as paid",
  "text": "(1) Except where paragraph (2) applies, a payment of income to which regulation 29 (calculation of earnings derived from employed earner's employment and income other than earnings) applies shall be treated as paid—\n(a) in the case of a payment which is due to be paid before the first benefit week pursuant to the claim, on the date on which it is due to be paid;\n(b) in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week in which it is due to be paid or the first succeeding benefit week in which it is practicable to take it into account.\n(2) Income support, jobseeker’s allowance, maternity allowance, short-term or long-term incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance , employment and support allowance or universal credit ... shall be treated as paid on any day in respect of which it is payable.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(1) substituted (17.11.2008) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.6) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2767), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 31(1) substituted (11.4.2011) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), regs. 1(4), 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2) inserted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2) substituted (13.4.1995) by The Disability Working Allowance and Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/482), regs. 1(1), 10 (with reg. 1(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2) substituted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2) substituted (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 28(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2) omitted (13.4.1995) by The Disability Working Allowance and Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/482), regs. 1(1), 10 (with reg. 1(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2) substituted (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 28(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2) substituted (11.4.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/663), regs. 1(1), 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 31(3)(4) omitted (11.4.2011) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), regs. 1(4), 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 31 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1967/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:57.034883+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."
}