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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/schedule-8/paragraph-2",
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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": "schedule/8/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 5, a person entitled to benefit may make an election, in accordance with paragraph 3, that benefit be paid weekly if he satisfies either of the following conditions:\n(a) he is a lone parent within the meaning set out in regulation 2(2) of the Child Benefit and Social Security (Fixing and Adjustment of Rates) Regulations 1976 , or\n(b) he, or his spouse residing with him or the person with whom he is living as husband and wife, is receiving income support, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, or payment in accordance with an award of family credit or disability working allowance which was awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 2(a) substituted (7.4.1997) by The Child Benefit, Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1803), regs. 1(b), 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 2(b) substituted (3.2.1992) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2741), regs. 1(1), 28"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 2(b) inserted (7.10.1996) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) (Jobseekers Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1460), regs. 1, 2(25)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 reg. 2(b) substituted (5.10.1999) by The Social Security and Child Support (Tax Credits) Consequential Amendments Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2566), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/1267; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/110, 1986/1172 and S.I. 1996/1803."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1968/schedule/8/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}