{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-regulations-1977/schedule-2/paragraph-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-regulations-1977/schedule-2/paragraph-2A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/343",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-regulations-1977",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where—\n(a) a beneficiary is a member of a couple; and\n(b) the other member of the couple had earnings in any week,\nthe beneficiary’s right to payment of increases for the following week under paragraph 2 above shall be determined in accordance with paragraph 2B below.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2A inserted (26.11.1984) by The Social Security Benefit (Dependency, Claims and Payments and Hospital In-Patients) Amendment Regulations 1984 (S.I. 1984/1699), regs. 1, 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2A(a) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 7(7)(a)(i) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2A(b) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 7(7)(a)(ii) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/343/schedule/2/paragraph/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:06:48.883782+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."
}