{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-regulations-1977/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-regulations-1977/schedule-2/paragraph-7.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/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The weekly rate of a carer’s allowance shall be increased by the amount specified in relation to that allowance in column (3) of Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act for any period during which the beneficiary is residing with—\n(a) a spouse or civil partner whose weekly earnings do not exceed that amount;\n(b) some person (not being a child or qualifying young person) who—\n(i) has the care of a child or children or a qualifying young person or persons in respect of whom the beneficiary is entitled to child benefit...\n(ii) is not undergoing imprisonment or detention in legal custody;\n(iii) if he has earnings, does not have weekly earnings exceeding that amount and for this purpose there shall be disregarded any weekly earnings derived from employment by the beneficiary in caring for a child or children or a qualifying young person or persons in respect of whom the beneficiary is entitled to child benefit;\n(iv) is not absent from Great Britain, except for any period during which the person is residing with the beneficiary outside Great Britain and for which the beneficiary is entitled to a carer’s allowance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. II substituted (1.4.2003) by The Social Security Amendment (Carer's Allowance) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2497), reg. 1(b), Sch. 2 paras. 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7 substituted (31.10.2011) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2425), regs. 1(2), 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7(a) substituted (11.4.1988) by The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/554), regs. 1(1), 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7(a) inserted (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)(d) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7(b) substituted retrospectively (22.12.84) by Social Security Act 1986 (c.50), s. 37(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7(b) inserted (10.4.2006) by The Social Security (Provisions relating to Qualifying Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/692), regs. 1, 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7(b) inserted (10.4.2006) by The Social Security (Provisions relating to Qualifying Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/692), regs. 1, 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7(b)(i) omitted (6.4.1987) by virtue of The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/355) regs. 1, 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7(b)(iii) substituted (11.4.1988) by The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/554), regs. 1(1), 5(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/343/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}