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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1973) (“the Family Credit Regulations”) and the Dis ability Working Allowance Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2887 (“the Disability Working Allowance Regulations”).

The Regulations amend Schedule 4 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations and Schedule 3 to the Family Credit Regulations so as to add to the list of capital to be disregarded in calculating a claimant’s capital for the purposes of working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit a dwelling which the claimant intends in due course to occupy as his home but which he currently does not occupy due to living in job-related accommodation.