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Explanatory note

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

Regulation 1 provides for citation and commencement, and regulation 2 for interpretation.

Regulation 3 amends the principal Regulations so as to provide that education maintenance allowances shall be disregarded in the calculation of a person’s income for the purpose of ascertaining entitlement to working families' tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit.

Regulation 4 amends the principal Regulations so as to provide that bonus payments of education maintenance allowances shall be disregarded as capital for the purpose of ascertaining entitlement to working families' tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit.

Regulation 5 revokes the provisions in regulation 2(2)(b) and (c) of the Social Security Amendment (Educational Maintenance Allowance) Regulations 1999 which are superseded by regulation 3 of these Regulations.

These Regulations do not impose a charge on business.