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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-young-carer-grants-short-term-assistance-and-winter-heating-assistance-consequential-provision-and-modifications-order-2020/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-young-carer-grants-short-term-assistance-and-winter-heating-assistance-consequential-provision-and-modifications-order-2020/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/989",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Young Carer Grants, Short-Term Assistance and Winter Heating Assistance) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-young-carer-grants-short-term-assistance-and-winter-heating-assistance-consequential-provision-and-modifications-order-2020",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends social security legislation in Great Britain as a consequence of sections 24 (duty to give assistance), 28 (carer’s assistance), 30 (winter heating assistance), and 36 (short-term assistance) of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 9) (“the 2018 Act”), and regulations made under section 28 of the 2018 Act. The regulations in relation to which consequential provision is made in this Order are the Carer’s Assistance (Young Carer Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/324), made under section 28 of the 2018 Act.\nArticle 1(2) provides that this Order comes into force on 9th November 2020.\nParts 2, 3, and 4 provide, respectively, for young carer grants, short-term assistance and winter heating assistance to be disregarded as capital or income in Great Britain when determining a claimant’s entitlement to benefits under the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967), the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207), 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 Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/794) and (in Parts 2 and 4 only) the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/376).",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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  "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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