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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/719",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend a number of different regulations relating to social security.\nRegulations 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967) (“the Income Support Regulations”), the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207) (“the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations”), 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 Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/215), the Council Tax Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/216) so that an award of carer’s allowance is only taken into account from the date on which it is paid.\nRegulations 2, 3, 6 and 8 amend cross-references in the Income Support Regulations, the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations, the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 and the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 to provisions (which were amended by S.I. 2006/2378) relating to the treatment of capital which is derived from an award of damages for a personal injury for the purposes of determining notional income or capital.\nRegulation 6 to 9 correct errors in amendments made to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006, the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006, the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 and the Council Tax Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) 2006.\nRegulations 2, 3 and 5 amend Schedule 7 to the Income Support Regulations, Schedule 5 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations and the Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 to remove the reduction in a claimant’s applicable amount for income support and jobseeker’s allowance that applies in certain circumstances where a child or young person has been a patient for more than 12 weeks.\nRegulations 2 and 3 amend the Income Support Regulations and the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations so as to:\nclarify that charitable and voluntary payments are wholly disregarded for the purposes of calculating income other than earnings;\nspecify that ordinary clothing and footwear does not include school uniforms or clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities for the purposes of calculating amounts from access funds which are to be treated as capital;\ninsert correct cross-references in relation to the definition of a “person from abroad”.\nRegulations 6 and 7 amend the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 and the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 to remove references to satellite television and to provide that television subscription charges are ineligible service charges for housing benefit purposes in Schedule 1 of those Regulations.\nRegulation 2 amends the Income Support regulations so as to:\nprovide for the circumstances where a higher pensioner premium, disability premium, enhanced disability premium and disabled child premium is to cease to be applicable to a claimant where the claimant, a partner of a claimant or a child or young person is a long-term patient;\nprovide that “long-term patient” means a person who has been a patient for more than 52 weeks;\namend Schedule 7 of the Income Support Regulations to remove the special applicable amounts that apply where a claimant, or if a claimant is a member of a couple the other member of that couple, has been a patient for more than 52 weeks;\nmake a minor amendment to remove a reference to an obsolete sub-paragraph in Schedule 2 to those Regulations.\nRegulation 3 amends the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations so as to:\nprovide for the circumstances where a higher pension premium, disability premium, enhanced disability premium and disabled child premium is to cease to be applicable to a claimant or a joint-claim couple where a claimant, a partner of a claimant or a child or young person is a long-term patient;\nprovide that “long-term patient” means a person who has been a patient for more than 52 weeks;\namend Schedule 5 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations to remove the special applicable amounts that apply where a claimant is a long-term patient.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business, charities or the voluntary sector.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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