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  "long_title": "These Regulations provide that where the Department of Health and Social Services (“the Department”) is collecting maintenance payments on behalf of a person who is claiming certain social security benefits, the Department may disregard those maintenance payments for the purposes of calculating the claimant’s benefit entitlement, and may then retain any such maintenance payments collected by it.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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