{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-increases-for-dependants-regulations-1994/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-increases-for-dependants-regulations-1994/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2945",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit — Increases for Dependants) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-increases-for-dependants-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Deeming abated benefit to be a contribution for the maintenance of child or adult dependants",
  "text": "Where for any period a person (in this regulation referred to as A) is entitled to, or to an increase in the amount of, any benefit prescribed under section 74(3)(a) of the Administration Act (income support and other payments) in respect of another person (in this regulation referred to as B) and the amount of, or of the increase in, any such benefit is abated under that section, then in determining for the purpose of the Contributions and Benefits Act whether A is wholly or mainly maintaining or is contributing at any weekly rate to the maintenance of, or is or has been contributing at any weekly rate to the cost of providing for, B, the amount by which such benefit for any week has been so abated shall be deemed to be a contribution of that amount for that week made by A for the maintenance of B.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2945/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:22:59.692562+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."
}