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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1072",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulations 2 to 6 amend respectively 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).\nRegulations 2 to 6 amend 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 by the scheme administered by the Church of England under the Abuse Redress Measure 2025 (No. 4).\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.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1072/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:54:09.885205+00:00"
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  "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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