Welfare Reform Act 2012
2012 CHAPTER 5
Commentary on Sections
Part 1: Universal credit
Section 39: Couples
203.Section 39 sets out how a couple is to be defined for the purposes of universal credit. Regulations under subsection (3) may prescribe circumstances in which a married couple are to be treated as single people and in which two people are to be treated as living together as man and wife or civil partners or treated as being or not being in the same household.
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