{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2007/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2007/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/5",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2007",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Exclusion of payments below prescribed minimum",
  "text": "Except in such circumstances as regulations may provide, an employment and support allowance shall not be payable where the amount otherwise payable would be less than a prescribed minimum.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 modified by 1995 c. 18, Sch. 1 para. 2(2) (as inserted (27.10.2008) by Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), s. 70(2), Sch. 3 para. 12(6); S.I. 2008/787, art. 2(4)(f))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 in force at 27.10.2008 by S.I. 2008/787, art. 2(4)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/5/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:56.724319+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."
}