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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/44",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulations 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 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).\nIn 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 a new disregard. The disregard covers payments pursuant to the Ministry of Defence’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Financial Recognition Scheme (“the Scheme”).\nRegulations 4 and 9 amend respectively the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2205) and the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Lump Sum Payments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1596) to exempt payments under the Scheme from compensation recovery pursuant to the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997 (c. 27).\nA 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/44/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:39.735660+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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