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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-students-and-income-related-benefits-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1701",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-students-and-income-related-benefits-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1814), the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1971), the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I.1987/1967) and the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207) in so far as those Regulations apply to students.\nIn particular they–\nincrease the amounts of grants and loan income to be disregarded in respect of books and equipment and for travel costs (regulation 2);\nprovide for the disregard of grants payable under the National Assembly for Wales' Learning Grant in their entirety (regulation 3(1)(a));\nprovide for the disregard of the Department of Education and Skills Parents Learning Allowance payments in their entirety (regulations 3(1)(b) and (c)).\nThese Regulations do not impose any charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1701/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:16:39.564244+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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