# The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 1975 (the principal Regulations). The circumstances in which a person is not to be regarded as maintained free of charge while receiving treatment as an in-patient are amended by regulation 2(2)(b). Where social security benefits are payable to or in respect of a person who has been undergoing continuous medical or other treatment as an in-patient in a hospital or similar institution, those periods after which the rates of benefit are reduced are provided by regulation 2(3) to be 6 weeks for the first reduction of benefit and 52 weeks for the second reduction. New rates of reductions to be made from benefits are specified in regulation 2(6). Resettlement benefit is abolished by regulation 2(11) except where a person becomes entitled to the benefit before 11th April 1988 (regulation 3).
The Report of the Social Security Advisory Committee dated 29th April 1987 on the draft of these Regulations which had been referred to them together with a statement showing why the Regulations do not give effect to the Committee’s recommendations is contained in Command Paper No. 215 published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1683/note (the official version)
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