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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefits-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefits-amendment-regulations-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1440",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefits-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Housing Benefits Regulations 1985 in relation to students.\nThe Regulations amend the definition of covenant income to restrict it to full-time students (regulation 2(a)(i)) and of standard maintenance grant to reflect the increased value of that grant (regulation 2(a)(ii)). They provide for a disregard from grant income of amounts for books, equipment and travel expenses (regulation 2(c)); from covenant income, where the student’s grant income includes a contribution, of the amount (if any) by which his grant income disregarded for travel expenses is less than £109 (regulation 2(d)) or, where he has no grant income, of the amounts which would have been disregarded had he been in receipt of the standard maintenance grant (regulation 2(e)); and from other income, of necessary expenditure in respect of such expenses in excess of the amounts disregarded from his grant and covenant income (regulation 2(f)).\nThe Regulations also limit the exclusion from eligibility for a rent allowance to a student paying rent to the educational establishment which he attends; provide for the exemption in such cases not to apply where the establishment pays rent for the accommodation to a third party which is another educational establishment or where it appears that the educational establishment has arranged accommodation in order to take advantage of the housing benefit scheme (regulation 2(b)); and increase the amount of the student’s deduction from eligible rent for students in London from £17.70 to £17.80 (regulation 2(g)).\nThey also make provision for the changes made by regulation 2(a)(ii), (d) and (g) not to have effect in relation to a student until the end of his summer vacation (regulation 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1440/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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