{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1408",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Earnings level for the purpose of unemployability supplement under section 58 of the Act",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 58(3) (earnings level that does not disqualify for unemployability supplement) the prescribed amount of earnings in a year is determined as follows–\n(a) multiply the National Minimum Wage by 16;\n(b) where the amount determined by the calculation in sub-paragraph (a) would, but for this sub-paragraph, include an amount of–\n(i) less than 50p, the amount determined under sub-paragraph (a) shall be rounded up to the nearest 50p, or\n(ii) less than £1 but more than 50p, the amount determined under sub-paragraph (a) shall be rounded up to the nearest £1; and\n(c) multiply the amount resulting from sub-paragraph (a) or (b) by 52.\n(2) In this regulation “National Minimum Wage” means the rate of the national minimum wage specified in regulation 11 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (rate of the national minimum wage).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 substituted (11.4.2011) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), regs. 1(4), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/455",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1987/327",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 1987"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1984/1703",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 1984"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/436",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 1988"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/645",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1985/1571",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 1985"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1982/1494",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (General Benefit) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1982"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1983/981",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (General Benefit) Amendment Regulations 1983"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1986/1118",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 1986"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1408/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:13:46.544892+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."
}