{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no3-regulations-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no3-regulations-1998/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1173",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.3) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no3-regulations-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1814), the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2887), the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1973), the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1971), the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967) (collectively referred to below as “the income-related benefits”) and the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207).\nIn particular, these Regulations provide that, for the purposes of the income-related benefits and jobseeker’s allowance, payments received under an insurance policy taken out to insure against the risk of being unable to maintain repayments on certain loans or under a hire-purchase or similar agreement shall, in certain circumstances, be disregarded in the calculation of a person’s income (regulations 2, 3, 4(b) and 5(b)). Regulations 4(a) and 5(a) make consequential amendments.\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1173/note",
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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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