The Social Security Amendment (Capital Disregards) (No. 2) Regulations 2001

• Citation: S.I. 2001/3481
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Amendment (Capital Disregards) (No. 2) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 19th November 2001.

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

There shall be added as—

(a) paragraph 67 of Schedule 5 to the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (capital to be disregarded);

(b) paragraph 67 of Schedule 5 to the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 ;

(c) paragraph 65 of Schedule 10 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 ;

(d) paragraph 58 of Schedule 8 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 ,

the following paragraph—

The amount of a payment, other than a war pension within the meaning in section 25 of the Social Security Act 1989 , to compensate for the fact that the claimant, the claimant’s partner, the claimant’s deceased spouse or the claimant’s partner’s deceased spouse—

(a) was a slave labourer or a forced labourer;

(b) had suffered property loss or had suffered personal injury; or

(c) was a parent of a child who had died,

during the Second World War.