{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-2025/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/969",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Entitlement to a Winter Fuel Payment",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 4, the Secretary of State must pay a winter fuel payment out of the social fund to a person (“P”) where—\n(a) in or before the qualifying week, P has reached pensionable age, and\n(b) in respect of any day falling within the qualifying week, P is ordinarily resident in England or Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 15.9.2025, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/969/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:12:04.803098+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."
}