{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-2025/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-2025/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amount of a Winter Fuel Payment",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), where P has not reached the age of 80 in or before the qualifying week, the amount of a winter fuel payment is £200.\n(2) Where P has not reached the age of 80 in or before the qualifying week, the amount of a winter fuel payment is £100 where—\n(a) a relevant benefit has not been, nor falls to be, paid to P in respect of the qualifying week, and\n(b) P is—\n(i) in that week, living with a person entitled to a winter fuel payment under regulation 2 in respect of the qualifying week, or\n(ii) in residential care.\n(3) Where P has not reached the age of 80 in or before the qualifying week, the amount of a winter fuel payment is £300 where—\n(a) a relevant benefit has been, or falls to be, paid to P in respect of the qualifying week, and\n(b) in that week, P is the partner of and living with a person who has reached the age of 80 in or before that week.\n(4) Subject to paragraphs (5) and (6), where P has reached the age of 80 in or before the qualifying week, the amount of a winter fuel payment is £300.\n(5) Subject to paragraph (6), where P has reached the age of 80 in or before the qualifying week, the amount of a winter fuel payment is £200 where—\n(a) a relevant benefit has not been, nor falls to be, paid to P in respect of the qualifying week, and\n(b) in that week, P is living with a person entitled to a winter fuel payment under regulation 2 in respect of the qualifying week and that person has not reached the age of 80.\n(6) Where P has reached the age of 80 in or before the qualifying week, the amount of a winter fuel payment is £150 where—\n(a) a relevant benefit has not been, nor falls to be, paid to P in respect of the qualifying week, and\n(b) P is—\n(i) in that week, living with a person entitled to a winter fuel payment under regulation 2 in respect of the qualifying week and that person has reached the age of 80, or\n(ii) in residential care.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}