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The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2015
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King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
2017-08-11
SOCIAL SECURITY
These Regulations amend the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230) (“the Principal Regulations”). They extend the cases, which are set out in regulation 6(2) of those Regulations, in which a person is a “universal credit claimant” and may not make a claim for income support, housing benefit or a tax credit. In particular, new regulation 6(2)(ba) provides for a person to be treated as a universal credit claimant during the six month period after an award of universal credit has come to an end, or a universal credit claim has been refused, because of the level of the claimant’s earned income. Regulation 6 of the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/380) provides for an award of universal credit to be made without a claim during this period, if the claimant’s circumstances change. A claimant will remain a “universal credit claimant” under regulation 6(2)(ba) if they have no change of circumstances and, after a change of circumstances, unless a decision is made that they are entitled to universal credit (in which case they would be a universal credit claimant under regulation 6(2)(a) of the Principal Regulations).
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 16th November 2015.