Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 by increasing the capital limit for persons aged 60 or over from £500 to £1000 and providing for the capital of a claimant’s partner to be taken into account for the purposes of determining the amountof a claimant’s capital (regulation 2). They also revise in part the description of areas covered by the national climatological message stations (regulation 3).