{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012/section-117",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012/section-117.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/5",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012",
  "path": "section/117",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "117",
  "heading": "Benefit offences: disqualifying and sanctionable benefits",
  "text": "(1) In the Social Security Fraud Act 2001, section 6A (meaning of “disqualifying benefit” and “sanctionable benefit”) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), in the definition of “disqualifying benefit”, after paragraph (e) there is inserted—\n“(f) child tax credit;\n(g) working tax credit;”.\n(3) In that subsection, in the definition of “sanctionable benefit”, after paragraph (f) there is inserted—\n“(fa) child tax credit;\n(fb) working tax credit;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 117(1) in force at 1.4.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/358, art. 6(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 117(1) in force at 6.4.2013 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2013/358, art. 6(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 117(2) in force at 1.4.2013 by S.I. 2013/358, art. 6(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 117(3) in force at 6.4.2013 by S.I. 2013/358, art. 6(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/5/section/117",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:01.675536+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."
}