{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-deemed-income-from-capital-regulations-2009/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1676",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Deemed Income from Capital) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-deemed-income-from-capital-regulations-2009",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make amendments to:\nthe State Pension Credit Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1792);\nthe Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/214);\nthe Council Tax Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/216).\nThe amendments provide for an increase in the limits beneath which capital is not taken to generate income for the purposes of calculating benefit. The limits of £10,000 for claimants residing permanently in specified accommodation which provides care for the claimant and £6,000 for all other claimants are amended so that a limit of £10,000 applies to all claimants.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private or voluntary sectors.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1676/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:09:54.960743+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."
}