§ 1980
§ Start of regulated scheme, (previously Supplementary Benefits Commission had wide powers and issued written guidance to local officers), (SI 1980/1586).
§ 1981
§ Men over 60 but below pension age who would otherwise be entitled to the long-term rate of normal requirements exempted, (SI 1981/1526.
§ 1982
§ People who worked part-time by reason of some disease or disablement were exempted, (SI 1982/907).
§ A person remanded in custody or committed in custody for trial or to be sentenced exempted, (SI 1982/907).
§ The exemption for those in specified circumstances in relevant education (for example where the claimant had the care of a dependent child or where there was no parent and nobody acting in the place of a parent) was extended to 19 year olds in non advanced education, (SI 1982/907).
§ 1983
§ All men over 60 exempted, (SI 1983/463).
§ Those caring for a member of the assessment unit who was temporarily sick with no alternative means of care exempted, (SI 1983/1000).
§ 1987
§ An exemption extended to those in relevant education living away from parents or a guardian who were unable to support him financially, (SI 1987/358).
§ 1988
§ Introduction of Income Support, (SI 1987/1967).
§ Removal of discretion to exempt those whose circumstances were "analogous" to those prescribed as being exempt, (SI 1987/1967).
§ A member of a couple looking after children while the other partner is temporarily abroad exempted, (SI 1988/1228).
§ 1990
§ Students within the definition of "deaf' for educational grant purposes exempt, (SI 1990/1657).
§ Exemption extended to people accompanying children abroad for medical treatment, (SI 1990/547).
§ 1991
§ A carer became exempt in the eight weeks after ceasing to meet the exemption criteria (e.g. after the death of the person for whom they were caring), (SI 1991/1559).
§ 1991
§ Exemption extended to those living in residential care and nursing homes engaged in some employment, (SI 1991/1559).