The Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance (General) Amendment Regulations 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1973) (“the Family Credit Regulations”), the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2887) (“the Disability Working Allowance Regulations”) and the Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2545) (“the Income-related Benefits Regulations”).

Regulation 2 amends the Family Credit Regulations in relation to what constitutes remunerative work for the purposes of those Regulations.

Regulations 3 and 4 make amendments to the Family Credit Regulations and the Disability Working Allowance Regulations respectively which are consequential on previous amendments to those Regulations which provided that an increase in the appropriate maximum family credit and disability working allowance will no longer be applicable in respect of young persons aged 18 or over.

Regulation 5 amends the Income-related Benefits Regulations in order to clarify the date from which the amendments in those Regulations will have effect for those with awards of family credit or disability working allowance on the date those Regulations come into force and to ensure that the amendments made by regulations 3 and 4 of these Regulations will not apply in respect of young persons who attained the age of 18 before these Regulations came into force.

These Regulations do not impose a charge on business.