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The Universal Credit Regulations 2013

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2013-02-25
Last updated 2026-04-06
State In force
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113

1989 c.41. Section 20 was amended by section 139(1) of, and paragraph 59 of Schedule 3 to, and Schedule 5 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c.38) and section 53(2) of the Children Act 2004 (c.31).

115

2003 c.44. Section 10(1) was amended by S.I. 2008/ 912. See “MAPPA Guidance (2012) Version 4” published in May 2012 by the Secretary of State.

116

2005 asp 14. See Justice and Communities Circular JD/01/2012, “Sections 10 and 11 of the Management of Offenders etc. (Scotland) Act 2005: Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) National Guidance 2012”, Version 1, published by Scottish Ministers in January 2012.

118

S.I. 1987/1967. Paragraph 12 was substituted by S.I. 2004/2825 and amended by S.I. 2007/3183, 2008/3195 and 2010/1811.

119

This is available on the Bank of England website: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/bankstats/current/index.htm.. The effective rate appears in Table G1.4 in the column headed “HSDE”.

120

1984 c.22. Section 45A and Part 2A were inserted by section 129 of the Health Act 2008 (c.14).

122

S.I. 1979/1435. Regulation 10 was amended by S.I.s 2007/1446 and 1901.

126

1989 c.41. Sections 23B and 23C were inserted by section 2 of the Children (Leaving Care) act 2000 (c.35) and section 24A was inserted by section 4 of that Act.

128

2007 Section 11J was inserted by section 57 of the Welafre Reform Act 2012.

129

1995 c.18. Sections 6J and 6K were inserted by section 49(3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.

Responsibility for children looked after by a local authority

4A
  • (1) There is excluded from regulation 4(6)(a)—
  • (a) any period which is in the nature of a planned short term break, or is one of a series of such breaks, for the purpose of providing respite for the person who normally cares for the child or qualifying young person;
  • (b) any period during which the child or qualifying young person is placed with, or continues to live with, their parent or a person who has parental responsibility for them;
  • (c) any period during which the child or qualifying young person is placed for adoption under the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.
  • (2) For the purposes of this regulation, a person has parental responsibility if they are not a foster parent and—
  • (a) in England and Wales, they have parental responsibility within the meaning of section 3 of the Children Act 1989 ; or
  • (b) in Scotland, they have any or all of the legal responsibilities or rights described in sections 1 or 2 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 .

Meaning of “qualifying young person”

General

Interpretation

Rent payments

Rent payments

Payments excluded from being rent payments

Owner-occupier payments

Owner-occupier payments

Meaning of “loan interest payments”

Meaning of “alternative finance payments”

Service charge payments

Service charge payments

Additional conditions: social rented sector renters and owner-occupiers

Additional room

Receiving certain treatments

In hospital

Prevented from working by law

Risk to self or others

Life threatening disease

Disabled and over the age for state pension credit

Terminal illness

Pregnancy

Receiving treatment for cancer

Risk to self or others

Disabled and over the age for state pension credit

Premises

Business assets

Rights in pensions schemes etc

Amounts earmarked for special purposes

Other payments

Editorial notes

132

See section 173(5) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992. The requirement to refer regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee does not apply where regulations are contained in a statutory instrument made before the end of the period of six months beginning with the coming into force of the enactment under which the regulations were made.

133

S.I. 1983/686. Article 14 was substituted, and articles 15 and 16 were amended, by S.I. 2001/1420.

134

Section 70 has been amended by S.I. 1994/2556 and S.I. 2002/1457.

148

2003 asp13.

151

Part 12ZB was inserted by section 4 of the Employment Act 2002 (c.22).

153

Section 39A was inserted by section 55(2) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c.30).

156

1989 c.41. Section 19B was inserted by section 1 of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (c.35). Section 23A was inserted by section 2 of that Act.

157

Regulation 15A was inserted by S.I. 2012/1547 and paragraph (4A) of that regulation was inserted by S.I.2012/2560.

162

1983 c.20. Section 45A was inserted by section 45A was inserted by section 46 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997.

163

1995 c.46. Section 59A was inserted by section 133 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003.

164

2003 asp13.

165

2007 c.5. Section 1A was inserted by section 51 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.

167

2010 nawm. 1.

168

S.I. 2010/2839 (W 233).

170

2002 c. 32. Section 19 has been amended by S.I. 2010/1158.

171

2001 c.2. Section 268A was inserted by section 30 of the Finance Act 2009 (c.10).

186

S.I. 1991/2740. Relevant amendments made by S.I. 1992/2869, 1999/1326 and 2007/2875.

188

S.I. 1991/2890. Relevant amendments made by S.I. 1992/2869, 1999/1326, 2000/1401, 2007/2875 and 2010/1172.

193

2001 c.11. Section 6B was inserted by section 24(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2009.

195

2001 c.11. Section 6B was inserted by section 24(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2009 and subsection (5A) by paragraph 58(3) of Schedule 5 to the Welfare Reform Act 2012. Subsection (2A) of section 9 was inserted by paragraph 61(4) of Schedule 2 to that Act.

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1992 c.5. Section 71ZH was inserted by section 105(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5).

198

2000 c.14. Section 3 was amended by section 95 of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to, the Care Standards Act 2008 (c.14).

200

1985 c.69. An amendment to section 1(1) which was inserted by section 3 of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to, the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c.43) was repealed by section 112 of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 10 to, the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 10).

202

2000 c.14. Section 2 was amended by section 103 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c.43); section 2 of, and paragraph 199 of Schedule 1 to, the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c.43); section 95 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c.14); and by S.I. 2001/3968 and 2008/2352.

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1978 c.29. Section 10F was inserted by section 108 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8).

205

2005 asp10.

209

1993 c.44. Section 3(1) is amended by section 21(a) of the Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007 (asp 7) and section 22(1) of the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 14).

210

1996 c.52. Section 122 was amended by section 127 of, and paragraph 60 of Schedule 7 to, the Local Government Act 2003 (c.26), section 40 of, and paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 to, and section 67 of, Schedule 8 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c.5).

211

1996 c.52. Section 1(1) was amended by section 61(1) and 3 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c.17) and paragraph 83 of Schedule 16, and Part 6 of Schedule 18, to the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c.38).

212

2010 (asp 17).

218

2003 c.44. Section 10(1) was amended by S.I. 2008/ 912. See “MAPPA Guidance (2012) Version 4” published in May 2012 by the Secretary of State.

219

2005 asp 14. See Justice and Communities Circular JD/01/2012, “Sections 10 and 11 of the Management of Offenders etc. (Scotland) Act 2005: Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) National Guidance 2012”, Version 1, published by Scottish Ministers in January 2012.

221

1984 c.22. Section 45A and Part 2A were inserted by section 129 of the Health Act 2008 (c.14).

223

S.I. 1979/1435. Regulation 10 was amended by S.I.s 2007/1446 and 1901.

227

1989 c.41. Sections 23B and 23C were inserted by section 2 of the Children (Leaving Care) act 2000 (c.35) and section 24A was inserted by section 4 of that Act.

229

2007 Section 11J was inserted by section 57 of the Welafre Reform Act 2012.

230

1995 c.18. Sections 6J and 6K were inserted by section 49(3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.

275

Reg. 35(4)(d) substituted (29.7.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1508, regs. 1(2)(a), 3(6)(f)

276

Reg. 35(5A) inserted (29.7.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1508, regs. 1(2)(a), 3(6)(g)

278

2010 asp.8.

290

Pt. 6 Ch. 2 excluded in part (27.7.2013) by S.I. 2013/1508, regs. 1(2), 7(3)(b)

294

Sch. 4 para. 36(3) sum maintained (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(o) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/260), arts. 1(2)(o), 28(4), Sch. 17

300

Sch. 4 para. 36(2) sum maintained (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(o) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/260), arts. 1(2)(o), 28(4), Sch. 17

307

Sch. 5 para. 11 omitted (with effect in accordance with regs. 19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 5(f)(v)

312

Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(3)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs. 19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 5(e)(iii)

314

Word in reg. 76(1)(a)(iii) omitted (19.6.2017) by virtue of The Social Security (Emergency Funds) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/689), regs. 1, 9(b)

317

Word in Sch. 5 para. 5(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2016) by The Social Security (Housing Costs Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1647), regs. 1, 5(2) (with reg. 8)

325

Words in reg. 41(3) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(b)

327

Word in reg. 28(2)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 2(3)

328

Sch. 1 paras. 4-6 omitted (with effect in accordance with regs. 19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 5(e)(ii)

331

Reg. 90(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 4(7)

332

Words in Sch. 4 para. 12(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/213), regs. 1(1), 6(d)(i)

333

Word in reg. 41(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(a)

335

Sch. 4 para. 12(9) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/213), regs. 1(1), 6(g)

338

Pt. 6 Ch. 2 applied (with modifications) by S.I. 2013/383, reg. 13(7) as substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 7

339

Words in reg. 24(2)(b)(ii) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 3(1)(b)

340

Reg. 55(4A) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 4(2)

342

Words in reg. 99(2) inserted (with effect in accordance with of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(a)

346

Words in reg. 77(3)(c) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 4(6)

357

Reg. 14(1): reg. 14 renumbered as reg. 14(1) (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit (Exceptions to the Requirement not to be receiving Education) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/827), regs. 1(1), 2(1)(a)

359

Words in reg. 82(2)(a) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit (Benefit Cap Earnings Exception) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/138), regs. 1, 2(3)(b)

361

Reg. 92 revoked (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit (EEA Jobseekers) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/546), regs. 1(1), 3

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