{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/regulation-22A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/regulation-22A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1968",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/22A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22A",
  "heading": "... Widowed mother’s allowance, widowed parent’s allowance and widow’s pension",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (4), ... widowed mother’s allowance, widowed parent’s allowance and widow’s pension shall be paid fortnightly in arrears on the day of the week specified in paragraph (3).\n(2) The Secretary of State may, in any particular case or class of case, arrange that a benefit specified in paragraph (1) be paid on any other day of the week.\n(3) The day specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) is the day in column (2) which corresponds to the series of numbers in column (1) which includes the last 2 digits of the person’s national insurance number—\n(1)\n(2)\n00 to 19\nMonday\n20 to 39\nTuesday\n40 to 59\nWednesday\n60 to 79\nThursday\n80 to 99\nFriday.\n(4) The Secretary of State may, in any particular case or class of case, arrange that the beneficiary be paid weekly in advance or in arrears or, where the beneficiary agrees to be paid in such manner, at intervals of four or 13 weeks in arrears.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 22A - Reg. 22B inserted (6.4.2009) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/604), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22A(1) omitted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1-3 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/422), arts. 1(2), 10(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22A heading omitted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1-3 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/422), arts. 1(2), 10(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1968/regulation/22A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:50.477745+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."
}