# The Social Security (Savings for Existing Beneficiaries) Regulations 1984, Note: Explanatory note


These regulations are made under section 28 of the Health and Social Security Act 1984 and accordingly, by virtue of section 22(1)(j) of that Act, they are exempt from the requirement of section 10 of the Social Security Act 1980 (c.30) to refer proposals to the Social Security Advisory Committee, and are made without any such reference.
Section 14 of the former Act provides that references to “earnings” in provisions of the Social Security Act 1975 concerned with benefits in respect of dependants shall include a reference to payments by way of occupational pension. Schedule 5 to that Act provides for the abolition of increases of short-term benefits in respect of children where the beneficiary is under pensionable age and for the abatement of increases of long-term benefits in all cases where the beneficiary has a spouse (including a person with whom he is living as husband and wife) whose earnings exceed £80 a week. These regulations provide that the provisions relating to abatement in respect of earnings shall not apply in the case of a person who was entitled to such an increase in the period immediately before they same into force until such time as he first ceases to satisfy the conditions for that increase. They also provide that the rate of benefit shall be the same for those persons to whom regulation 2(4) applies.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1696/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-savings-for-existing-beneficiaries-regulations-1984/note
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