{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1775",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (the principal Regulations) in the following respects—\nthey provide that a person residing with a claimant shall not be a non-dependant where payments are made on a commercial basis to or by a member of the claimant’s household in respect of the occupation of the dwelling (regulation 3);\nthey provide that payments to a third party in respect of a claimant for housing benefit or a member of his family, where used for paying a community charge or water charges of that claimant or family are to be treated as part of the claimant’s income or capital (regulations 4 and 5);\nthey provide for the reduction of notional capital (regulation 6);\nthey provide that non-dependant deductions from a claimant’s housing benefit shall not be made in respect of a full-time student who is not in remunerative work during his summer vacation (regulation 7);\nthey correct an omission in Schedule 1A (excluded tenancies) in the definition of “the relevant provisions” (regulation 8);\nthey add a new premium, the carer premium, to the premiums which may form part of a housing benefit claimant’s applicable amount where the claimant or his partner is or, in certain cases, would be in receipt of invalid care allowance (regulation 9);\nthey increase the amount of income to be disregarded from a lone parent’s earnings (regulation 10);\nthey make provision in respect of the income from charitable or voluntary payments which is to be disregarded in calculating a person’s income, they provide for the disregard from a person’s income and capital of travelling expenses, National Health Service payments and payments in place of milk tokens or the supply of vitamins and, as regards capital only, provide for the disregard of certain trust funds, the value of certain premises occupied by relatives of single claimants and arrears of special war widows payments and they extend the provisions under which the assets of a business may be disregarded (regulations 11 and 12).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1775/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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