{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-care-payments-and-tenant-incentive-scheme-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-care-payments-and-tenant-incentive-scheme-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/995",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security and Child Support (Care Payments and Tenant Incentive Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-care-payments-and-tenant-incentive-scheme-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 37 (earnings of self-employed earners)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for “paragraph (2)” substitute “paragraphs (2) and (2A)”;\n(b) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) Earnings shall also not include any payment made in accordance with section 26A of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (duty to provide continuing care)—\n(a) to a claimant; or\n(b) where paragraph (2B) applies, to another person (“A”) which A passes on to the claimant.\n(2B) This paragraph applies only where A—\n(a) was formerly in the claimant’s care;\n(b) is aged 16 or over; and\n(c) continues to live with the claimant.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/995/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:07:25.532973+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."
}