# The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make further amendments to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967), the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1973) and the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2887) in the following respects—
(a) they make amendments consequential upon the abolition of community charges, the introduction of council tax and the introduction of council tax benefit in succession to community charge benefits (regulations 2, 9, 15, 21 and the Schedule);
(b) they provide definitions of community charge benefit and the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (regulations 3, 10 and 16);
(c) they amend the disregards in respect of income arising from disregarded capital (regulations 9, 15 and 21);
With respect to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987—
(a) they amend the definition of “water charges” (regulation 3);
(b) they amend the definition of “person from abroad” to include a national of a European Community State who has been required to leave the UK (regulation 4);
(c) they reduce from 2 years to 12 months the period of time a person must have been unemployed before his applicable amount can be reduced in cases of failure to attend courses, and they provide that such courses may be provided by or on behalf of the Secretary of State. They also make minor drafting changes to this provision (regulation 5);
(d) in relation to the calculation of housing costs, they specify the deduction to be made in the case of non-dependants and their partners (regulation 7);
(e) in relation to the calculation of income, they further amend the notional income provisions in respect of occupational pensions, and they provide a disregard in respect of the earnings of a claimant or partner who is entitled to the carer premium (regulations 6 and 8);
With respect to the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 and the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991—
(a) they provide a definition of “water charges” (regulations 10 and 16);
(b) they provide that where a child or young person has capital in excess of £3,000, any income of that child or young person consisting of maintenance is to be treated as the income of the claimant (regulations 13 and 19);
(c) they provide for a child support reduced benefit direction to be treated as a change of circumstances so as to permit a review of an award (regulations 14 and 20);
(d) in relation to the calculation of income, they amend the method of calculation of weekly maintenance and they specify that statutory maternity pay is not to be treated as earnings, and they provide a disregard of guardian’s allowance (regulations 11, 12, 15, 17, 18 and 21).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/315/note (the official version)
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