{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2118",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1971) and the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1814) so that with respect to each benefit—\n(a) they provide definitions of “date of claim” and “maternity leave” (regulations 2 and 16);\n(b) they provide that a person absent from work owing to illness or maternity is not to be treated as engaged in remunerative work (regulations 3 and 17);\n(c) they provide for certain capital of a child or young person to be treated as income and make consequential amendments (regulations 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25 and 28);\n(d) they alter from 52 weeks to a year the period by reference to which the earnings of self-employed earners are to be estimated (regulations 7 and 20);\n(e) with respect to the calculation of earnings of employed earners, they further specify the amounts which are to be included as earnings; they amend the provisions relating to the disregard of certain earnings where the employment has been terminated or the claimant has ceased to be engaged in work; they provide that certain disregards do not apply when certain other disregards apply, and that a specified amount only shall be disregarded in respect of earnings of children in certain circumstances (regulations 8, 13, 21 and 26);\n(f) with respect to the calculation of earnings of self-employed earners, they amend the provisions specifying the amount to be deducted in respect of social security contributions (regulations 9 and 22);\n(g) they amend, in relation to the calculation of a person’s applicable amount, the conditions relating to severe disability premium (regulations 12 and 25);\n(h) with respect to the calculation of income other than earnings, they provide that the disregard of a specified amount of certain war pensions and payments is not to apply where the pension or payment falls to be disregarded under other specified provisions (regulations 14 and 27);\n(i) with respect to the calculation of capital, they specify that £200 of certain payments made as a training bonus are to be disregarded (regulations 15 and 28).\nWith respect to housing benefit, they amend the provisions specifying the circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household (regulation 4).\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on businesses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2118/note",
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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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