Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 2001
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2001/1167 |
| Year | 2001 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 2nd July 2001.(2) In these Regulations—a liability to meet any of the ineligible service charges specified in a liability to meet any payment in respect of service charges other than a payment listed in paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the Universal Credit Regulations; a liability to meet charges for water, sewerage or allied environmental services; a liability to meet council tax payments
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a liability to meet the increase in such payment as is referred to in a reduction of an amount of benefit by virtue of a reduction of a specified amount of benefit by virtue of section 2A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992
a reduction in the amount of a jobseeker’s allowance payable by virtue of section 17 of the Jobseekers Act 1995
the non-payability of a jobseeker’s allowance or a reduction in the amount of a jobseeker’s allowance payable, pursuant to a decision made by virtue of the suspension of payment of an amount of benefit by virtue of section 21, 22 or 24 of the Social Security Act 1998
a reduction of housing benefit imposed pursuant to section 130B of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (loss of housing benefit following eviction on certain grounds) . a reduction in the amount of benefit due to recovery of an overpayment under Part 13 of the Housing Benefit Regulations or Part 12 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations, or recovery of excess benefit under Part 11 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 or Part 10 of the Council Tax Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006.
a reduction in the amount of universal credit due to recovery of an overpayment pursuant to section 71ZB of the Social...
- “the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006; and
- “the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006.
- F33“the Universal Credit Regulations” means the Universal Credit Regulations 2013;
- “relevant award of universal credit” means an award of universal credit the calculation of which includes an amount under section 11 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012, calculated in accordance with Schedule 4 to the Universal Credit Regulations, or would include such an amount but for F41paragraph 3(h) or (i) of Schedule 1 to those Regulations;
- “universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
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