{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012/section-84",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012/section-84.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/5",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012",
  "path": "section/84",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": "No entitlement to daily living component where UK is not competent state",
  "text": "(1) A person to whom a relevant EU Regulation applies is not entitled to the daily living component for a period unless during that period the United Kingdom is competent for payment of sickness benefits in cash to the person for the purposes of Chapter 1 of Title III of the Regulation in question.\n(2) Each of the following is a “relevant EU Regulation” for the purposes of this section—\n(a) Council Regulation (EC) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 , as amended from time to time, on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community;\n(b) Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 , as amended from time to time, on the coordination of social security systems.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 84(2)(a) inserted (15.11.2018) by The Social Security (Updating of EU References) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1084), regs. 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 84(2)(b) inserted (15.11.2018) by The Social Security (Updating of EU References) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1084), regs. 1, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 84 in force at 8.4.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/358, art. 7(1)(2)(f), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 84 in force at 10.6.2013 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2013/1250, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/5/section/84",
    "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."
}