{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-computation-of-earnings-regulations-1996/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-computation-of-earnings-regulations-1996/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2745",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-computation-of-earnings-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Date on which earnings are treated as paid",
  "text": "Earnings to which regulation 6 (calculation of earnings of employed earners) or 11(2) (calculation of earnings of self-employed earners) applies shall be treated as paid—\n(a) (i) in the case of a payment in respect of an adult dependant of an increase of maternity allowance payable under section 82(2) of the Contributions and Benefits Act or an increase of carer’s allowance payable under paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977 ; or\n(ii) in the case of a payment in respect of an adult dependant who is not residing with the claimant of an increase of Category A or Category C retirement pension payable under section 83(2)(b) or 84(1) and 84(2)(b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act or a disablement pension where the claimant is entitled to an unemployability supplement payable under paragraph 6(1)(a)(ii) of Schedule 7 to the Contributions and Benefits Act,\non the first day of the benefit week following the benefit week in which the payment is due to be paid;\n(b) in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week in which the payment is due to be paid.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 substituted (1.4.2003) by Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2823), regs. 1(b), 2(4), (5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 82(2) was substituted by the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c.18), section 41, Schedule 2, paragraph 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1977/343, amended by the Social Security Act 1986 (c.50), section 37(2), S.I. 1987/355 and 1988/554."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "Section 83 was amended by the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c.18), Schedule 1, paragraph 20 and Schedule 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "Section 84 was substituted by the Jobseekers Act 1995, Schedule 2, paragraph 25."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "Sections 83 and 84 are to be replaced by section 83A by virtue of the Pensions Act 1995 (c.26), Schedule 4, paragraph 2(1) from 6th April 2010."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2745/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:05.829440+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."
}