{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/24",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Maternity allowance and carer's allowance",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4) (“the Benefits Act”) are omitted on 6 April 2010—\n(a) section 82 (maternity allowance: increase for adult dependants); and\n(b) section 90 (carer's allowance: increase for adult dependants).\n(2) Nothing in subsection (1) or Part 2 of Schedule 7 applies in relation to—\n(a) the amount of a maternity allowance payable for a maternity allowance period (within the meaning of section 35(2) of the Benefits Act) which begins before 6 April 2010 but ends on or after that date, or\n(b) the amount of a carer's allowance payable to a qualifying person at any time on or after 6 April 2010 but before the appropriate date.\n(3) In subsection (2)(b)—\n“a qualifying person” means a person who—\n(a)has, before 6 April 2010, made a claim for an increase in a carer's allowance under section 90 of the Benefits Act; and\n(b)immediately before that date is either entitled to the increase claimed or a beneficiary to whom section 92 of the Benefits Act applies in respect of that increase (continuation of awards where fluctuating earnings);\n“the appropriate date” means whichever is the earlier of—\n(a)6 April 2020; and\n(b)the date when the qualifying person ceases to be either entitled to that increase or a beneficiary to whom section 92 of the Benefits Act applies in respect of that increase.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/24/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:45.980880+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."
}