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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-overlapping-benefits-regulations-1979/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1979/597",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-overlapping-benefits-regulations-1979",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "The Regulations contain provisions relating to adjustment of benefits under the Social Security Act 1975 by reference to other benefits payable for the same period.\nThe principal matters dealt with are adjustment of personal benefit under Chapters I, II and IV of Part II of the Act (regulations 4 and 6), earnings-related supplement (regulation 5) and dependency benefit (regulations 7 to 11). The regulations also contain miscellaneous provisions incidental to those matters.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/597/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:18:11.094388+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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