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Welfare Reform Act 2012

Section 2: Claims

30.Section 2 contains provisions about claims for universal credit. A claim may be made either by a single person or, in the case of a couple, jointly.

31.Subsection (2) enables the Secretary of State to make regulations setting out circumstances in which a member of a couple may make a single person claim. This may be used, for example, where one member of a couple does not have a right to reside in the UK, and so is not entitled to universal credit. The other member of the couple would then be able to make a claim as a single person.

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