{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/44",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008",
  "text": "(1) The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—\n(a) after the definition of “last day of the course” insert—\n““LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme payment” means a payment under the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Financial Recognition Scheme administered under the authority of the Secretary of State for Defence;”;\n(b) in the definition of “qualifying person” for “or a vaccine damage payment” substitute “, a vaccine damage payment or an LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme payment”.\n(3) In regulation 107(5A) (notional income – income due to be paid or income paid to or in respect of a third party) for sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) substitute—\n“(c) a Windrush payment;\n(d) a Post Office compensation payment;\n(e) an LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme payment.”.\n(4) In regulation 112(8)(b) (income treated as capital) for paragraphs (iii) and (iv) substitute—\n“(iii) Windrush payment;\n(iv) Post Office compensation payment;\n(v) LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme payment.”.\n(5) In regulation 115(5A) (notional capital) for sub-paragraphs (c) to (e) substitute—\n“(c) a Windrush payment;\n(d) a Post Office compensation payment;\n(e) a vaccine damage payment;\n(f) an LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme payment.”.\n(6) In Schedule 6 (housing costs), in paragraph 19(8)(b), for “or Post Office compensation payment” substitute “, Post Office compensation payment or LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme payment”.\n(7) In Schedule 8 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings), in paragraph 41—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1A), for paragraphs (c) and (d) substitute—\n“(c) Windrush payment;\n(d) Post Office compensation payment;\n(e) LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme payment.”;\n(b) in each of sub-paragraphs (2) to (6) for “or a vaccine damage payment” substitute “, a vaccine damage payment or an LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme payment”.\n(8) In Schedule 9 (capital to be disregarded), in paragraph 27—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1A) for “or vaccine damage payment” substitute “, vaccine damage payment or LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme payment”;\n(b) in each of sub-paragraphs (2) to (5) and (6) for “or a vaccine damage payment” substitute “, a vaccine damage payment or an LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme payment”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/794; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2008/2428, 2010/641, 2011/2425, 2017/329, 689, 870, 2020/618, 2021/1405, 2023/640, 1144."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/44/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:39.735660+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."
}