
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 11th November 2000.
2 
For the purposes of making social fund winter fuel payments in respect of the winter which immediately precedes the spring of the year 2001, regulation 2(b) of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2000 (social fund winter fuel payments) shall be modified as if—
(a) in head (i) for the reference to £150 there were substituted a reference to £200; and
(b) in head (ii) for the reference to £75 there were substituted a reference to £100.
Alistair Darling
Secretary of State for Social Security
7th November 2000