{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-regulations-1975/regulation-7A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-regulations-1975/regulation-7A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/556",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/7A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7A",
  "heading": "Credits for carer’s allowance or carer support payment",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of entitlement to any benefit by virtue of a person`s earnings or contributions he shall, subject to paragraph (2), be entitled to be credited with earnings equal to the lower earnings limit then in force, in respect of each week for any part of which a carer’s allowance or carer support payment is paid to him, or would be paid to him but for a restriction under section 6B or 7 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (loss of benefit provisions) or in the case of a widow, widower or surviving civil partner, would have been so payable but for regulation 16 of the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 or the provisions of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1975, as amended by the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976, requiring adjustment of a carer’s allowance or carer support payment against widow's benefit, widowed parent’s allowance or benefit by virtue of section 39(4) corresponding to a widowed mother's allowance or a widow's pension.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply—\n(a) to a person in respect of any week where he is entitled to be credited with earnings under regulation 8A or 8B in respect of the same week; or\n(b) to a woman in respect of any week in any part of which she was a married woman in respect of whom an election made by her under regulations made under section 3(2) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 had effect.\n(3) In this regulation “carer support payment” means the carer support payment component of carer support given in accordance with the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7A inserted (6.4.1978) by The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976 (S.I. 1976/409), reg. 1(1), 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A substituted (2.10.1988) by The Social Security (Credits) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1545), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(1) substituted (6.4.1987) by The Social Security (Credits) Amendment Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/414), regs. 1(1), 6(a) (with reg. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(1) substituted (1.4.2003) by The Social Security Amendment (Carer’s Allowance) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2497), reg. 1(b), 3, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(1) inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 3(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(1) inserted (1.4.2002) by The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/490), regs. 1(1), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(1) inserted (1.4.2010) by The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1160), regs. 1, 13(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(1) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 4(2) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(1) inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 3(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1-3 of the amending S.I.) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/422), arts. 1(2), 4(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(2)(a) substituted (6.4.1987) by The Social Security (Credits) Amendment Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/414), regs. 1(1), 6(b) (with reg. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(2)(a) substituted (7.10.1996) by The Social Security (Credits and Contributions) (Jobseekers Allowance Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2367), regs. 1, 2(4) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(2)(b) substituted (6.4.1978) by The Social Security (Credits) Amendment and (Earnings Factor) Transitional Regulations 1978 (S.I. 1978/409), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Reg. 7A(3) inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(3) substituted (15.3.2026) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Carer’s Assistance) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/246), arts. 1(2), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in heading to reg. 7A substituted (1.4.2003) by The Social Security Amendment (Carer’s Allowance) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2497), reg. 1(b), 3, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A heading inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/556/regulation/7A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:12:11.103774+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."
}