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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-amendment-no-2-regulations-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3391",
  "legislation_title": "The Income-related Benefits (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-amendment-no-2-regulations-2005",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulations 1 to 5 amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987, the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987, the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 and the Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations 1996 to make provision in each set of Regulations for grants paid by the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund (“the Fund”), and certain payments derived from these grants, to be disregarded when calculating that person's capital or income for the purpose of an award of benefit.\nRegulation 7 also amends the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002 to provide for grants paid by the Fund to a person, and certain payments derived from these grants, to be disregarded when calculating that person's income from capital for the purpose of an award of state pension credit.\nThese Regulations revoke the previous disregards that applied in respect of payments from the Fund.\nIn relation to housing benefit and council tax benefit, regulations 3(4) and 4(4) provide that a person is not required to furnish any evidence and information about a payment from the Fund when making a claim or in connection with an award.\nRegulation 6 amends regulation 2(2) of the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Regulations 1997 to include an exemption for payments made from the Fund from the compensation recovery scheme.\nRegulation 8 amends regulation 10 of the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 2005 to ensure that payments from the Fund are not deducted in calculating the amount of a funeral payment.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the cost of business.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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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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