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The Social Security and Universal Credit (Migration of Tax Credit Claimants and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024

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7.—(1) The Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 5(1) (responsibility for children looked after by an authority)—

(a)at the end of sub-paragraph (b) omit “.” and insert “;”;

(b)after sub-paragraph (b) insert—

(c)any period during which the child or qualifying young person is placed for adoption under the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987(2).

(3) In regulation 68(7) (person treated as having a student income), in the definition of “student loan” omit “and includes, in Scotland, a young student’s bursary paid under regulation 4(1)(c) of the Students’ Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 2007”.

(4) In regulation 71 (calculation of student income – amount for an assessment period) at the end of “step 2” insert—

But where the first day of the person’s current universal credit award is on a date later than the first day of the year of the course, or period of the course in question, each period of one month beginning on the same day as the assessment periods for, and preceding the commencement of, that award is to be treated as an assessment period when determining the number of assessment periods for which the person is to be treated as having student income..

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