Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Regulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and interpretation, and regulation 2 introduces the amendments.
Regulation 3 amends Schedule 2 to the Family Credit Regulations and Schedule 3 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations (income to be disregarded) so as to add the sum of £15 of any widowed mother’s allowance or widowed parent’s allowance to the categories of income to be disregarded.
Regulation 4 amends Schedule 3 to the Family Credit Regulations and Schedule 4 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations (capital to be disregarded) so as to add payments of £10,000 made by the Secretary of State for Social Security to persons who were held prisoner by the Japanese during World War Two or to the spouses of such persons.