{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-5-regulations-2010/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-5-regulations-2010/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2429",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 5) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-5-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 31(8)(k) (treatment of child care charges)—\n(a) after “by a foster parent” insert “or kinship carer”;\n(b) for “Fostering of Children (Scotland) Regulations 1996” substitute “Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009”;\n(c) after “is fostering” insert “or kinship carer is looking after”.\n(3) For regulation 38(2)(b)(ii) (earnings of self-employed earners), substitute—\n“(ii) with whom a local authority foster a child under the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 or who is a kinship carer under those Regulations;” .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/214."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Inserted by S.I. 2009/1848."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2429/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:18.891930+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."
}