{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/regulation-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/regulation-73.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/73",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Amount of income support payable",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulations 75 (modifications in income) and 76 (reduction in certain cases), where a claimant is entitled to income support for a period (referred to in this Part as a part-week) to which subsection (1A) of section 21 of the Act (amount etc. of income-related benefit) applies, the amount of income support payable shall, except where paragraph (2) applies, be calculated in accordance with the following formulae—\n(a) if the claimant has no income,\nN×A7;\n(b) if the claimant has income,\n(N×(A-I)7)-B.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In this Regulation—\n“A”, ... means the claimant’s weekly applicable amount in the relevant week;\n“B” means the amount of any income support, jobseeker’s allowance, maternity allowance, short-term or long-term incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance or employment and support allowance payable in respect of any day in the part-week;\n“I” means his weekly income in the relevant week less B;\n“N” means the number of days in the part-week;\n“relevant week” means the period of 7 days determined in accordance with regulation 74.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 7 inserted (11.4.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/663), regs. 1(1), 27"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 73(2) omitted (8.4.2002) by virtue of The Social Security Amendment (Residential Care and Nursing Homes) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/3767), reg. 1, Sch. Pt. I para. 13(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 73(3) omitted (8.4.2002) by virtue of The Social Security Amendment (Residential Care and Nursing Homes) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/3767), reg. 1, Sch. Pt. I para. 13(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 73(3) 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), 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 73(3) inserted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 73(3) substituted (13.4.1995) by The Disability Working Allowance and Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/482), regs. 1(1), 12 (with reg. 1(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 73(3) 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(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 73(4)(5) omitted (8.4.2002) by virtue of The Social Security Amendment (Residential Care and Nursing Homes) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/3767), reg. 1, Sch. Pt. I para. 13(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1967/regulation/73",
    "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."
}