
2024 No. 869
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024
Made at 9.00 a.m. on 22nd August 2024
Laid before Parliament at 2.30 p.m. on 22nd August 2024
Coming into force 16th September 2024
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 138(2) and 175(1) and (3) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, sections 5(1)(a) and (i) and 189(1) and (4) to (6) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, sections 16(1) and 79(1) and (4) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Act 1998 and section 71(1)(a), (2)(a), (3) and (5) of the Scotland Act 2016.In accordance with section 173(1)(a) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, it appears to the Secretary of State that by reason of the urgency of this matter it is inexpedient to refer the proposals in respect of these Regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee.
Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation
1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 and come into force on 16th September 2024.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations extend to England and Wales only.
(3) Regulations 1 and 7(1), and Schedule 2 (revocations), also extend to Scotland.
(4) In these Regulations—
 “child tax credit” and “working tax credit” have the same meanings as in the Tax Credits Act 2002;
 “couple” means—
(a) two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and are members of the same household; or
(b) two people who are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together as if they were a married couple or civil partners;
 “polygamous marriage” means any marriage which took place under the laws of a country which permits polygamy where—
(a) any member of the marriage is for the time being married to more than one person; and
(b) all the members of the marriage are members of the same household;
 “qualifying week” means in respect of any year the week beginning on the third Monday in the September of that year.
Entitlement to a Winter Fuel Payment
2 
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Amount of a Winter Fuel Payment
3 
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Persons not entitled to a Winter Fuel Payment
4 
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Making a Winter Fuel Payment without a claim
5 
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consequential amendments to the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987
6 
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Revocations and expiry
7 

(1) The Regulations  and Orders specified in the first column of the table in Schedule 2 are revoked to the extent specified in the third column of that table.
(2) The following provisions cease to have effect on 1st April 2025—
(a) in regulation 2—
(i) in paragraph (1)(b), the words “or (3)”;
(ii) paragraph (3);
(iii) in paragraph (4), the definition of “withdrawal agreement”, “EEA EFTA separation agreement” and “Swiss citizens’ rights agreement”; and
(iv) in paragraph (5), the words “and (3)(c)(i)”; and
(b) Schedule 1.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Emma Reynolds
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Work and Pensions
at 9.00 a.m. on 22nd August 2024
Schedules
Schedule 1
Countries
Regulation 2(3)(a)


...

Schedule 2
Regulations  and Orders revoked
Regulation 7(1)


Regulations  and Orders revoked Reference Extent of revocation
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2000 S.I. 2000/729 The whole regulations
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment and Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 2000 S.I. 2000/2229 Regulation 2
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2000 S.I. 2000/2864 The whole regulations
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations 2000 S.I. 2000/2997 The whole regulations
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2001 S.I. 2001/3375 The whole regulations
The Social Security (Claims and Payments and Miscellaneous Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2002 S.I. 2002/2660 Regulation 3
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2003 S.I. 2003/1737 The whole regulations
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 S.I. 2003/2192 The whole regulations
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2004 S.I. 2004/2154 The whole regulations
The Social Security (Care Homes and Independent Hospitals) Regulations 2005 S.I. 2005/2687 Regulation 8
The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc Provisions) Order 2005 S.I. 2005/2877 Paragraph 32  of Schedule 3
The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 S.I. 2005/3360 Regulation 7
The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 S.I. 2008/1554 Regulation 7
The Social Security (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Regulations 2009 S.I. 2009/1488 Regulations 18 to 21
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 S.I. 2010/1881 Article 10
The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications of Enactments) Order 2011 S.I. 2011/2581 Paragraph 29 of Schedule 2
The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 S.I. 2012/757 Regulation 18
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2013 S.I. 2013/1509 The whole regulations
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 S.I. 2014/107 Paragraph 28 of Schedule 1
The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014 S.I. 2014/3229 Paragraph 19 of Schedule 6
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2014 S.I. 2014/3270 The whole regulations
The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 S.I. 2015/67 Regulation 4
The Social Security and Child Support (Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Provision) Regulations 2018 S.I. 2018/228 Regulation 6
The Social Security (Updating of EU References) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 S.I. 2018/1084 Paragraph 9 of the Schedule
The Civil Partnership (Opposite-Sex Couples) Regulations 2019 S.I. 2019/1458 Paragraph 58 of Schedule 3
The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 S.I. 2021/811 Regulation 2
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations 2023 S.I. 2023/549 The whole regulations