{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/regulation-35",
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  "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/35",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Deductions which may be made from benefit and paid to third parties",
  "text": "(1) ... Deductions may be made from benefit and direct payments may be made to third parties on behalf of a beneficiary in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 9 and Schedule 9B.\n(2) Where a social fund payment for maternity or funeral expenses or expenses for heating which appear to the Secretary of State to have been or to be likely to be incurred in cold weather is made, wholly or in part, in respect of a debt which is, or will be, due to a third person, the payment may be, and in the case of funeral expenses shall be, made to that person and where an instrument of payment is made payable to that person it may be sent to the beneficiary.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 35 substituted (11.4.1988) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/522), regs. 1(1), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 35(1) omitted by S.I. 2017/725, Sch. 5 para. 7(3) (as inserted) (6.4.2018) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/307), regs. 1(2), 2(18)(e) (with regs. 19 - 21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 35(1) substituted (25.5.1992 for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)(4)) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1026), reg. 1(3)(4), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 35(1) inserted (31.1.2001) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/18), regs. 1(1), 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 35(2) inserted (7.11.1988) by The Social Security (Common Provisions) Miscellaneous Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1725), regs. 1(1), 3(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 35(2) substituted (8.4.2003) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2441), regs. 1(1)(c), 9 (with reg. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 35 heading substituted (25.5.1992 for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)(4)) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1026), reg. 1(3)(4), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1968/regulation/35",
    "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."
}