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The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013

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King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2016-07-07

SOCIAL SECURITY

These Regulations make provision for the first phase of the replacement of certain “existing benefits” by universal credit, a new benefit established by the Welfare Reform Act 2012. The existing benefits are income-based jobseeker’s allowance, income-related employment and support allowance, income support, housing benefit, working tax credit and child tax credit. The Regulations provide that claims for universal credit may initially only be made by a limited group of claimants and specify the requirements for membership of this “Pathfinder Group”. They also specify how certain matters which are relevant to previous entitlement to existing benefits will be taken into account in the claimant’s entitlement to universal credit.