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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-and-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-regulations-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2660",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-and-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-regulations-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make further amendments to the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987.\nRegulation 2(2) extends the period for claiming a bereavement payment from 3 to 12 months and regulation 4 provides for the extended period to apply in respect of deaths occurring on or after 1st April 2003.\nRegulation 2(3) provides for a winter fuel payment to be paid, alternatively, to the partner of the person entitled despite the partner being aged under 60 if the partner receives income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance.\nRegulation 3 makes a consequential amendment to the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2000.\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on business.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2660/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:43:25.560194+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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