PART 2

CHAPTER 2EFFECT OF TRANSITION TO UNIVERSAL CREDIT

Meaning of “qualifying young person”29

Where a person who would (apart from the provision made by this regulation) be a “qualifying young person” within the meaning of regulation 6 of the Universal Credit Regulations is entitled to an existing benefit—

a

that person is not a qualifying young person for the purposes of the Universal Credit Regulations; and

b

regulation 6(5) of those Regulations applies as if, after “a person who is receiving” there were inserted “an existing benefit (within the meaning of the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016),”.