# The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Regulations 2 to 8 amend respectively the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967), the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207), the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1792), the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/213), the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/214), the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/794), and the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/376).
In particular, they amend as appropriate provisions regarding which payments are to be disregarded as income and capital for the purposes of calculating entitlement to benefits in order to create new disregards. The disregards cover payments made under miscarriage of justice schemes that have effect under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33). At the time of making these Regulations there are three such schemes: the Miscarriages of Justice Application Service in England and Wales and equivalent schemes in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The new disregards also cover extra-statutory payments made for similar purposes.
Regulation 4(2)(a) corrects the placement of a definition in regulation 1(2) of the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002 so that it appears in alphabetical order.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/778/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-no-2-regulations-2025/note
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