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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-funeral-expense-assistance-and-early-years-assistance-consequential-modifications-and-savings-order-2019/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-funeral-expense-assistance-and-early-years-assistance-consequential-modifications-and-savings-order-2019/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1060",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Funeral Expense Assistance and Early Years Assistance) (Consequential Modifications and Savings) Order 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-funeral-expense-assistance-and-early-years-assistance-consequential-modifications-and-savings-order-2019",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 29 (meaning of “income”), after paragraph (1)(j)(xviic) insert—\n“(xviid) funeral expense assistance given in accordance with section 34 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.”.\n(3) In Part 1 of Schedule 6 (capital to be disregarded generally), after paragraph 21(2)(q) insert—\n“(r) funeral expense assistance given in accordance with section 34 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/214; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2018/1138."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1060/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:39:20.055733+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."
}