{"id":73475,"date":"2016-08-24T13:35:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f69102db447405750abc9e0ae98d6a49"},"modified":"2016-08-24T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:35:54","slug":"news-story-civilcrime-news-disregarded-payments-list-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73475","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil\/crime news: &#8216;disregarded payments&#8217; list expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The list of payments to be disregarded when making financial assessments is being expanded.<\/p>\n<p>The updated list affects the calculation of gross and disposable income for both civil and criminal legal aid financial determinations from 28 July 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"amended-regulations\">Amended regulations<\/h3>\n<p>These are the new payments which have been added to the list of disregarded income under the Civil and Criminal Legal Aid (Financial Eligibility and Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2016:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>budget advances<\/li>\n<li>payments on account of benefit<\/li>\n<li>transfer advances of Universal Credit<\/li>\n<li>Welsh Independent Living Grant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"where-can-i-find-out-more\">Where can I find out more?<\/h3>\n<p>See below for a link to provider guidance on disregarded payments on GOV.UK.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can find guidance on what these payments are and what you can disregard when making financial determinations.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>You can download provider guidance on disregarded payments from:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/civil-legal-aid-means-testing\">Civil legal aid: means testing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/criminal-legal-aid-means-testing\">Criminal legal aid: means testing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to lists of payments to be disregarded in civil and criminal legal aid financial assessments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}