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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-hospital-in-patients-amendment-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/944",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Amendment Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-hospital-in-patients-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 1975. A person who receives free in-patient treatment in a hospital or similar institution for between 6 and 53 weeks, has his entitlement to receive incapacity benefit, widow’s or widowed mother’s allowance, widow’s or widower’s pension, age addition, severe disablement allowance, retirement pension, unemployability supplement, bereavement allowance or widowed parent’s allowance, reduced. These Regulations decrease the reduction which would otherwise apply in certain circumstances, from 40% to 39% of the basic retirement pension.\nThese Regulations do not impose any cost on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/944/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:55:24.442722+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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