{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-2025/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-2025/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Persons not entitled to a Winter Fuel Payment",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 2 does not apply to P if any of the circumstances in paragraphs (2) to (5) applies.\n(2) This paragraph applies where, throughout the qualifying week, P is—\n(a) a partner of and living with a person (“P’s partner”) who has reached pensionable age in or before the qualifying week and P’s partner is a person to whom a relevant benefit has been, or falls to be, paid in respect of the qualifying week,\n(b) receiving free in-patient treatment and has been receiving free in-patient treatment for a period of more than 52 weeks ending immediately before the qualifying week, or\n(c) detained in custody under a sentence imposed by a court.\n(3) This paragraph applies where P is in residential care and a relevant benefit has been, or falls to be, paid to P in respect of the qualifying week.\n(4) This paragraph applies where, having been ordinarily resident in England or Wales on any day falling within the qualifying week, P becomes ordinarily resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland on or before the last day of that week.\n(5) Subject to paragraph (6), this paragraph applies where P has not made a claim for a winter fuel payment on or before the 31st March following the qualifying week.\n(6) Paragraph (5) does not apply where—\n(a) a winter fuel payment has been made by virtue of regulation 5(1) in respect of the qualifying week, or\n(b) regulation 5(2) applies.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}