{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/522",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 17",
  "text": "In regulation 17 (duration of awards), after paragraph 1 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(1A) Where an award of income support is made in respect of a married or unmarried couple (as defined in section 20(1) of the Social Security Act 1986) and one member of the couple is, at the date of claim, a person to whom section 23 of that Act applies, the award of benefit shall cease when the person to whom section 23 applies returns to work with the same employer.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/522/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:09:28.626956+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."
}