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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-amendment-regulations-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/637",
  "legislation_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThis instrument makes various amendments to the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 2001 (“the Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends the references in regulation 3 of the Regulations in line with the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 and the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006. It also adds a paragraph to regulation 3 of the Regulations precluding a discretionary housing payment being paid to meet a need for financial assistance which arises because of reductions in housing benefit to recover overpayments or reductions in council tax benefit to recover excess benefit.\nRegulation 3 substitutes regulation 5 of the Regulations so that discretionary housing payments may only be made in respect of a period where the person is or was entitled to housing benefit, council tax benefit or both.\nA Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as it has no impact on business, charities or voluntary bodies.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) (1.4.2026) by The Discretionary Financial Assistance and Discretionary Housing Payments (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/271), reg. 1(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/637/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:34:34.695490+00:00"
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  "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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