http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/24/section/6Welfare Reform Act 2009An Act to amend the law relating to social security; to make provision enabling disabled people to be given greater control over the way in which certain public services are provided for them; to amend the law relating to child support; to make provision about the registration of births; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-08-06Expert Participation2026-07-01 Welfare Reform Act 2009Sch. 4 para. 9(3)(b)Welfare Reform Act 2009Sch. 7 Pt. 1s. 61(3) Part 1 6In section 20 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (relationship of employment and support allowance with statutory sick pay and other statutory payments), for subsection (1) substitute—1A person—ais not entitled to a contributory allowance in respect of a day, andbexcept as regulations may provide, is not entitled to an income-related allowance in respect of a day,if, for the purposes of statutory sick pay, that day is a day of incapacity for work in relation to a contract of service and falls within a period of entitlement (whether or not it is a qualifying day).