{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2003/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2003/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/511",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In Schedule 4 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) after paragraph 74 the following paragraph shall be added–\n“\n75 (1) Any payment made by a local authority to or on behalf of the claimant or his partner relating to–\n(a) welfare services within the meaning of section 93(1) or (2) of the Local Government Act 2000;\n(b) housing support services in respect of which the Scottish Ministers have paid a grant to the local authority under section 91(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001,\nwhere the claimant or his partner qualified for that payment.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) “local authority” includes, in England, a county council.”.\n(3) After paragraph 67 of Schedule 5 (capital to be disregarded) the following paragraph shall be added–\n“\n68 (1) Any payment made by a local authority to or on behalf of the claimant or his partner relating to–\n(a) welfare services within the meaning of section 93(1) or (2) of the Local Government Act 2000;\n(b) housing support services in respect of which the Scottish Ministers have paid a grant to the local authority under section 91(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001,\nwhere the claimant or his partner qualified for that payment.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) “local authority” includes, in England, a county council.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I.1987/1971."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Paragraph 74 was inserted by S.I.2001/2333."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "Paragraph 67 was inserted by S.I.2001/3481."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/511/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:44.933916+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."
}