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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/benefit-cap-housing-benefit-amendment-regulations-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/546",
  "legislation_title": "The Benefit Cap (Housing Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/benefit-cap-housing-benefit-amendment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Benefit Cap (Housing Benefit) Regulations 2012 (“the 2012 Regulations”). The 2012 Regulations insert provisions in the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/213) (“the Housing Benefit Regulations”) to introduce a cap on the total amount of benefits to which a person is entitled.\nRegulation 75C of the Housing Benefit Regulations (inserted by the 2012 Regulations) makes provision for the calculation of welfare benefits (as defined in the inserted regulation 75G of the Housing Benefit Regulations) when applying the benefit cap. Regulation 2(2) of these Regulations substitutes a new paragraph (2) in regulation 75C so that where the welfare benefit is housing benefit, the local authority will use the amount of nil in any case where the dwelling is exempt accommodation within the meaning paragraph 4(10) Schedule 3 to the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217).\nRegulation 2(3) of these Regulations adds a new sub-paragraph (g) to regulation 75F(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (inserted by the 2012 Regulations). This will exempt a claimant who is receiving universal credit (which will already have been subject to the benefit cap) from the benefit cap in housing benefit.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/546/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:01:33.146397+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."
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