The Social Security Amendment (Capital Disregards) Regulations 2001

• Citation: S.I. 2001/22
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Amendment (Capital Disregards) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st February 2001.

Section 2 Income support, jobseeker’s allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit: capital disregard

There shall be added as—

(a) paragraph 61 of Schedule 10 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (capital to be disregarded);

(b) paragraph 56 of Schedule 8 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 ;

(c) paragraph 64 of Schedule 5 to the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 ;

(d) paragraph 64 of Schedule 5 to the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 ,

the following paragraph—

Where an ex-gratia payment of £10,000 has been made by the Secretary of State on or after 1st February 2001 in consequence of the imprisonment or internment of—

(a) the claimant;

(b) the claimant’s partner;

(c) the claimant’s deceased spouse; or

(d) the claimant’s partner’s deceased spouse,

by the Japanese during the Second World War, £10,000.