{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/section-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/section-87.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/14",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975",
  "path": "section/87",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Benefit to be inalienable",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, every assignment of, or charge on, benefit and every agreement to assign or charge benefit shall be void; and, on the bankruptcy of a beneficiary, the benefit shall not pass to any trustee or other person acting on behalf of his creditors.\n(2) In the application of this section to Scotland—\n(a) the reference to assignment of benefit shall be read as a reference to its assignation, \" assign \" being construed accordingly;\n(b) the reference to a beneficiary's bankruptcy shall be read as a reference to the sequestration of his estate or the appointment on his estate of a judicial factor under section 14 of the 1913 c. 20.Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1913 or section 15 of the 1958 c. 28.Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1958.\n(3) In calculating for the purposes of section 5 of the 1869 c. 62.Debtors Act 1869 or section 4 of the 1882 c. 42.Civil Imprisonment (Scotland) Act 1882 the means of any beneficiary, no account shall be taken of any increase of injury benefit or disablement benefit in respect of a child, or of industrial death benefit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/14/section/87",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:40:38.067895+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."
}