{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/regulation-26.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/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Income support",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 21 (direct credit transfer), Schedule 7 shall have effect for determining the ... time at which income support is to be paid... and the day when entitlement to income support is to begin.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Where the entitlement to income support is less than 10 pence or, in the case of a beneficiary to whom section 23A of the Social Security Act 1986 applies, £5, that amount shall not be payable unless the claimant is also entitled to payment of any other benefit with which income support may be paid under arrangements made by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(1) substituted (12.5.1993) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1113), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(1) omitted (10.4.2006) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/832), regs. 1(2), 2(9)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(1) omitted (19.6.2000) by virtue of The Social Security and Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1596), regs. 1(1), 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 26(2)(3) omitted (10.4.2006) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/832), regs. 1(2), 2(9)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(4) substituted (11.4.1988) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/522), regs. 1(1), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(4) substituted (27.2.1989) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments and Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/136), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1968/regulation/26",
    "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."
}