{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-and-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2229",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment and Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-and-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/729) and the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/481).\nIn particular, regulation 2 increases the amount of winter fuel payments from the social fund from £100 to £150 where a person aged 60 or over is being paid income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance and is not in residential accommodation in the qualifying week and from £50 to £75 in other cases.\nRegulation 3 increases the amount of a Sure Start Maternity Grant from £200 to £300.\nRegulation 4 makes a transitional provision.\nThese Regulations do not impose any charge on business.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2229/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:40:18.876182+00:00"
  },
  "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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