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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-new-deal-pilot-amendment-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/1999/0110804783",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Amendment Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-new-deal-pilot-amendment-regulations-1999",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2825) (“the New Deal Pilot Regulations”) to the extent that they modify provisions in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207), the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967), the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1971), the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1814), the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1973) and the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2887).\nIn particular, they provide that persons participating in the pilot scheme established under regulation 2 of the New Deal Pilot Regulations and who are receiving assistance in pursuing self-employed earner’s employment whilst so participating (“the self-employment route”), shall be subject to special rules as to the treatment of their income and capital in the benefits referred to above.\nRegulation 2(6) inserts a new regulation 18 into the New Deal Pilot Regulations. This provides that income paid to a participant in the period when he is receiving assistance under the self-employment route and which derives directly from the receipt of such assistance shall, for the purposes of jobseeker’s allowance and income support, be subject to special rules. These rules relate to its calculation and the date it is taken into account and treated as paid (new regulation 18(1)). Regulation 2(6) also provides that for the purpose of applying the special rules, the last day on which such assistance is received shall either be the day on which there is at least £2,000 in the participant’s special account or, if that does not occur, the day on which such assistance has been received for a period of 26 weeks.\nThe new regulation 18 also provides, in paragraphs (2) and (3)–\nthat such income, for the purposes of council tax benefit, disability working allowance, family credit and housing benefit, shall be treated as capital;\nthat mandatory payments made to participants in the self-employment route shall be disregarded both as income and as capital;\nthat payments in respect of expenses incurred in receiving assistance under the self-employment route and amounts used or intended to be used to maintain repayments on loans taken out to help establish or carry on the activity to be assisted under the self-employment route shall be disregarded as income;\nthat business assets of persons receiving assistance under the self-employment route shall, in certain circumstances, be disregarded as capital; and\nthat capital intended for purchasing business assets for use whilst receiving assistance under the self-employment route shall be disregarded.\nRegulation 2(4)(b) and (5) amends the New Deal Pilot Regulations so as to extend the income and capital disregards for certain payments made to participants in respect of their participation in the intensive activity period so as to enable them to continue to claim any of the benefits referred to in the first paragraph of this Note. Regulation 2(3) modifies the definition of “training allowance” in those benefits so as to exclude such payments from being a training allowance.\nRegulation 2(2) makes a consequential amendment and regulation 2(4)(a) makes a technical amendment.\nThese Regulations do not impose any charge on business.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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