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The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014

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[F1Restriction on claims for housing benefit, income support or a tax creditE+W+S

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6A.—(1) Except as provided by paragraphs (2) to [F2(5)] a person may not make a claim for housing benefit, income support, or a tax credit.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a claim for housing benefit in respect of specified accommodation or temporary accommodation.

(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a claim for housing benefit that is made during the last assessment period of an award of universal credit, where the claimant reaches the qualifying age for state pension credit and paragraph 26 of Schedule 1 to the Decisions and Appeals Regulations applies, in respect of entitlement arising from the date the claimant reaches that age.

(4) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a claim for housing benefit by a single person who has reached the qualifying age for state pension credit, or a member of a State Pension Credit Act couple where both members have reached that age or a member of a polygamous marriage where all members have reached that age.

(5) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a claim for housing benefit where—

(a)the claim is made by a member of a State Pension Credit Act couple who has reached the qualifying age for state pension credit and the other member has not reached that age; and

(b)one of the savings in the sub-paragraphs of article 4(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 31 and Savings and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 21 and 23 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2019 applies and the saving has not ceased to have effect under article 4(2) of that Order.

F3(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F4(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(8) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a)“polygamous marriage” has the same meaning as in regulation 3(5) of the Universal Credit Regulations;

(b)“State Pension Credit Act couple” means a couple as defined in section 17(1) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002,]

F5...

[F6(9) Despite anything in F7... the Tax Credits (Claims and Notifications) Regulations 2002, a person may not make, or be treated as making, a claim for a tax credit in respect of the whole, or any part, of the tax year beginning on 6th April 2025 or any subsequent tax year.]

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