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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-and-adjudication-amendment-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2306",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments and Adjudication) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-and-adjudication-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1968) in the following respects—\nthey remove the special rules on time limits for claiming incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance for claimants in hospital (regulations 2 and 7); they also amend the time limit for claiming social fund payments (regulation 6);\nthey increase the maximum weekly amount of benefit which may be paid at intervals of up to 12 months (regulation 3);\nthey alter the period of time within which payment of benefit may be suspended in a case where an appeal to a Social Security Commissioner may be made (regulation 4);\nthey make an amendment, consequential on changes to the entitlement conditions for income support, to the provisions on withholding of benefit (regulation 5).\nThese Regulations also amend regulations 63 and 63A of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1995 (S.I.1995/1801), which concern reviews of income support and jobseeker’s allowance. The regulations amend the provisions relating to the date that reviews of income support have effect where reductions in the capital outstanding on a loan or changes in the rate of interest have occurred (regulation 8), and make similar provision for jobseeker’s allowance (regulation 9).\nThese Regulations do not impose any costs on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2306/note",
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  "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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