# The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1993, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987.
Certain categories of persons from abroad as defined in regulation 21(3) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987, have a reduced applicable amount calculated in accordance with regulation 70 of those Regulations (urgent cases).Regulation 2 amends one of those categories so that asylum seekers, but not those seeking only a variation of their leave to enter the United Kingdom, qualify as urgent cases.There are savings for existing beneficiaries (paragraph (4)).
Regulation 3 excludes from the mortgage interest payments taken into account in determining a person’s applicable amount, payments on so much of any loan or loans as exceed £150,000 as from 2nd August 1993 or £125,000 as from 11th April 1994.There are savings provisions for those entitled to income support on 2nd August 1993 with a loan or loans above that amount (regulation 4).Similar savings provisions apply to the 1994 change.
Regulation 5 provides a linking rule for the purposes of determining whether successive periods of 6 months, during which no restriction is placed upon the payment of high mortgage costs, are still current.
Regulation 6 provides for the disregard of certain payments made under a mortgage protection policy in the calculation of income other than earnings.
These Regulations do not impose a charge on businesses.
The report of the Social Security Advisory Committee dated 20th May 1993 on the proposals referred to them (that is the proposals identified in the Schedule to this Instrument) together with the statement showing the extent to which these Regulations give effect to them, and in so far as they do not give effect to them, the reasons why not, are contained in Command Paper No.2272, published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1679/note (the official version)
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