Welfare Reform Act 2012

6 (1) Section 15A (payment out of benefit of sums in respect of mortgage interest) is amended as follows. E+W+S

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) in paragraph (a), after “entitled, to“ there is inserted “universal credit,”;

(b) in paragraph (b), after “determining“ there is inserted “the maximum amount for the purposes of universal credit or”;

(c) in the words after paragraph (b), after “whose” there is inserted “ maximum amount for the purposes of universal credit or ”.

(3) In subsection (4)—

(a) in the definition of “qualifying associate”—

(i) before “falls” there is inserted “or universal credit”;

(ii) before “as responsible” there is inserted “or Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012”;

(b) in the definition of “relevant benefits”, before paragraph (a) there is inserted—

“(za) universal credit;”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 2 para. 6 in force at 25.2.2013 by S.I. 2013/358, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 para. 40