{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/regulation-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/regulation-55.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/55",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Treatment of ... liable relative payments",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 55A ... a payment shall—\n(a) to the extent that it is not a payment of income, be treated as income;\n(b) be taken into account in accordance with the following provisions of this Chapter.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55 inserted (19.4.1996) by The Social Security Benefits (Maintenance Payments and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/940), regs. 1(1), 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55 heading omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 55 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/55",
    "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."
}