--- title: "The Discretionary Financial Assistance and Discretionary Housing Payments (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026" id: 27238e09-0d82-4ffe-8e78-31185706e944 authority: uk place: "United Kingdom" applies_also_from: [] kind: regulation in_force: true publisher_url: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/271 attribution: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives." solon_url: https://solon.orangecat.ch/law/27238e09-0d82-4ffe-8e78-31185706e944 language: en in_force_from: 2026-04-01 date_basis: publisher status: consolidated source_url: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/271/data.xml read_on: 2026-11-10 sha256: aafe826487ef0904a860bf2503e5ef8df11d6312d803f60c408df92adeb5cdb6 provisions: 5 --- # The Discretionary Financial Assistance and Discretionary Housing Payments (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 ## Title and introductory text {#prelims} 2026 No. 271 SOCIAL SECURITY, ENGLAND AND WALES The Discretionary Financial Assistance and Discretionary Housing Payments (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 Made at 9.20 a.m. on 11th March 2026 Laid before Parliament at 2.30 p.m. on 11th March 2026 Coming into force 1st April 2026 The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 140B(1), 140C(1), (1A), (2) and (4) and 189(4), (5) and (6) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (“the Administration Act”) and sections 69(1), (2), (4), (5) and (7) and 70(2), (3), (4), (6) and (7) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000. In accordance with section 189(8) of the Administration Act, the Secretary of State has obtained the consent of the Treasury. In accordance with section 173(1)(b) of the Administration Act, the Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that the proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it. In accordance with section 176(1)(aa) and 176(1)(b) of the Administration Act, the Secretary of State has consulted with organisations appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of the authorities concerned. ## 1 Citation, commencement, extent and application {#regulation-1} (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Discretionary Financial Assistance and Discretionary Housing Payments (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 and come into force on 1st April 2026. (2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales. (3) Regulation 1 applies to England and Wales. (4) Regulation 2 applies to England only. (5) Regulation 3 applies to Wales only. ## 2 Revocations {#regulation-2} The Regulations and Orders specified in the first column of the table in the Schedule are revoked to the extent specified in the third column of that table. ## 3 Amendment of the Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Order 2001 {#regulation-3} (1) The Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Order 2001 is amended as follows. (2) In article 3 (claims), in paragraph (3)(a) omit “in the case of a relevant authority in England and Wales,”. (3) Omit article 7 (limit on total expenditure). ## Schedule Regulations and Orders revoked in relation to England {#schedule} Regulation 2 Regulations and Orders revoked | Reference | Extent of revocation The Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 2001 | S.I. 2001/1167 | The whole regulations The Social Security (Breach of Community Order) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2001 | S.I. 2001/1711 | Regulation 2(6) The Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Order 2001 | S.I. 2001/2340 | The whole order The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2002 | S.I. 2002/490 | Regulation 10 The Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Amendment Order 2004 | S.I. 2004/2329 | The whole order The Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Amendment Order 2005 | S.I. 2005/2052 | The whole order The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 | S.I. 2006/217 | Paragraph 18 of Schedule 2 The Housing Benefit (Loss of Benefit) (Pilot Scheme) (Supplementary) Regulations 2007 | S.I. 2007/2474 | Regulation 9 The Discretionary Financial Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 2008 | S.I. 2008/637 | The whole regulations The Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Amendment Order 2008 | S.I. 2008/1167 | The whole order The Welfare Reform Act 2009 (Section 26) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2010 | S.I. 2010/424 | Regulation 5 The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions for Failure to Attend) Regulations 2010 | S.I. 2010/509 | Regulation 4(3) The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Amendment Regulations 2010 | S.I. 2010/1160 | Regulation 8 The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work for Your Benefit Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010 | S.I. 2010/1222 | Regulation 19(1)(c) The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Mandatory Work Activity Scheme) Regulations 2011 | S.I. 2011/688 | Regulation 17(1)(c) The Council Tax Benefit Abolition (Consequential Provision) Regulations 2013 | S.I. 2013/458 | The entries in Schedule 1 that relate to the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 2001 The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 | S.I. 2013/1139 | The whole regulations The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) and Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Amendment Order 2014 | S.I. 2014/1667 | Article 2(2) The Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments, Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2018 | S.I. 2018/65 | Regulation 2 The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) and Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Amendment Order 2021 | S.I. 2021/1031 | Article 8