Regulations
A comprehensive library of every universal credit-related statutory instrument and statutory rule, with links through to legislation.gov.uk and to the rightsnet summary.
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Miscellaneous amendments
Social Security, Universal Credit and State Pension (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 |
93 | 2023 |
Amendments to correct errors and clarify policy intent |
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Childcare costs element
Universal Credit (Childcare) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 |
90 | 2023 | childcare |
Increase the maximum childcare costs element from 28 June 2023 |
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Childcare costs element
Universal Credit (Childcare) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 |
593 | 2023 | childcare |
Increase the maximum childcare costs element and make provision for childcare costs to be met upfront by disregarding payments made by funds provided by the Secretary of State - typically the Flexible Support Fund |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Social Security and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023 |
543 | 2023 |
Amendments to correct errors and clarify policy intent |
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Residence rules
Social Security (Habitual Residence and Past Presence) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 |
532 | 2023 | residence-rules |
Insert a category into the list of persons who are exempted from having to satisfy the habitual residence test relating to those arriving in the UK who resided in Sudan before 15 April 2023 and left in connection with the violence which rapidly escalated there on 15 April 2023. |
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Administrative Earnings Threshold
Universal Credit (Administrative Earnings Threshold) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023 |
3 | 2023 | work-related-requirements |
Provide for an increase in the Administrative Earnings Threshold, from the current £494 per calendar month to £617 for an individual; and from £782 per calendar month to £988 for a couple |
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Local housing allowance
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) (Modification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 |
4 | 2023 |
Provide for local housing allowance rates in 2023/2024 to be retained at the same cash levels as applied from April 2020 |
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Work-related requirements
Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2023 |
157 | 2023 | work-related-requirements |
Extends the period for which the pilot scheme established under the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme and Amendment Regulations 2015 (SI.No.89/2015) has effect |
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Administrative Earnings Threshold
Universal Credit (Administrative Earnings Threshold) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 |
7 | 2023 | work-related-requirements |
Provide for an increase in the Administrative Earnings Threshold, from the current £494 per calendar month to £617 for an individual; and from £782 per calendar month to £988 for a couple |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2023 |
6 | 2023 |
Makes provision to freeze local housing allowance (LHA) rates for 2023/2024 at the rates set for 2020/2021. |
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Administrative earnings threshold
Universal Credit (Administrative Earnings Threshold) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 |
223 | 2022 | work-related-requirements |
Provide for an increase in the Administrative Earnings Threshold, from the current £355 per calendar month to £494 for an individual; and from £567 per calendar month to £782 for a couple |
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Local housing allowance
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Victims of Domestic Abuse and Victims of Modern Slavery) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 |
211 | 2022 |
Include amendments to the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (SR.No.216/2016) that provide for exemption from the local housing allowance shared accommodation rate for victims of domestic abuse and victims of modern slavery. |
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Local housing allowance
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Victims of Domestic Abuse and Victims of Modern Slavery) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 |
942 | 2022 |
Include amendments to the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 (SI.No.376/2013) that provide for exemption from the local housing allowance shared accommodation rate for victims of domestic abuse and victims of modern slavery. |
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Administrative Earnings Threshold
Universal Credit (Administrative Earnings Threshold) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 |
886 | 2022 | work-related-requirements |
Provide for an increase in the Administrative Earnings Threshold, from the current £355 per calendar month to £494 for an individual; and from £567 per calendar month to £782 for a couple |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 |
194 | 2022 | managed-migration |
Include amendments that remove provisions that are no longer necessary following the full roll-out of universal credit, remove the restriction on sending out migration notices and that amend provisions in relation to natural and managed migration processes. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2022 |
752 | 2022 | managed-migration transitional-provisions |
Include provision to remove the 10,000 limit on the number of migration notices that can be issued to existing claimants on legacy benefits, make amendments in relation to the natural migration process, and remove provisions that are no longer necessary following the full roll-out of universal credit |
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Capital
Universal Credit (Local Welfare Provision Disregard) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 |
448 | 2022 |
Make provision for local welfare provision to be disregarded in the calculation of capital for universal credit purposes |
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Deductions
Social Security Benefits (Claims and Payments) (Modification) Regulations 2022 |
428 | 2022 |
Temporary modification of fuel deductions from universal credit so that new payments for ongoing consumption or increase in existing payments may only be made if requested by claimant |
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Residence rules
Social Security (Habitual Residence and Past Presence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 |
149 | 2022 | residence-rules |
Exemption from habitual residence test for people arriving in Northern Ireland from Ukraine |
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Residence rules
Social Security (Habitual Residence and Past Presence) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 |
344 | 2022 | residence-rules |
Exemption from habitual residence test for people arriving from Ukraine |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 16 and Commencement No. 8, 13 and 14 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 |
132 | 2022 |
Brings into force provisions of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 as listed in Schedule 1 to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No.8 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2017 in so far as they are not already in force, and also removes restrictions that have prevented frontier workers from making universal credit claims. |
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Treated as having LCW or LCWRA
Social Security (Terminal Illness) (2022 Act) (Commencement) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 |
171 | 2022 |
Amend the definition of terminal illness to extend the period within which death may reasonably be expected from six months to 12 months |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 34 and Commencement No. 9, 21, 23, 31 and 32 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2022 |
302 | 2022 |
Brings into force provisions of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 as listed in schedule 2 of the No. 9 Commencement Order (SI.No.983/2013) in so far as they are not already in force, and also removes restrictions that have prevented frontier workers from making universal credit claims. |
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Treated as having LCW or LCWRA
Universal Credit and Employment and Support Allowance (Terminal Illness) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 |
260 | 2022 |
Amend the definition of terminal illness to extend the period within which death may reasonably be expected from six months to 12 months |
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Work-related requirements
Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2022 |
139 | 2022 | work-related-requirements |
Extends the period for which the pilot scheme established under the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme and Amendment Regulations 2015 (SI.No.89/2015) has effect. |
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Claimant commitment
Universal Credit and Employment and Support Allowance (Claimant Commitment Exceptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 |
60 | 2022 | claimant-commitment |
Include provision for a further exception from the basic condition of entitlement to universal credit of having accepted a claimant commitment for people who are terminally ill. |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment and Modification) Order 2021 |
1380 | 2021 |
Makes provision to freeze local housing allowance (LHA) rates for 2022/2023 at the rates set for 2020/2021 and to amend the date that changes to broad rental market areas take effect for LHA purposes. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Work Allowance and Taper) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 |
302 | 2021 |
Provide for a reduction in the universal credit taper rate from 63 per cent to 55 per cent and a £500 increase in work allowances. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Exception to the Requirement not to be receiving Education) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 |
303 | 2021 | entitlement-to-universal-credit |
Provide for the exception to the universal credit basic condition not to be receiving education on the grounds of receipt of a disability benefit to apply only when a person has also been determined to have limited capability for work on a date before the person starts undertaking a course of education. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Work Allowance and Taper) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 |
1283 | 2021 |
Provide for a reduction in the universal credit taper rate from 63 per cent to 55 per cent, and for work allowances to be increased by £500 per year. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Exceptions to the Requirement not to be receiving Education) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 |
1224 | 2021 | entitlement-to-universal-credit |
Provide for the exception to the universal credit basic condition not to be receiving education on the grounds of receipt of a disability benefit to apply only when a person has also been determined to have limited capability for work on a date before the person starts undertaking a course of education. |
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Children and childcare
Universal Credit (Childcare Costs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 |
249 | 2021 |
Provides for payments for upfront childcare costs from the Adviser Discretion Fund to be disregarded when calculating a claimant’s childcare costs element within their universal credit award. |
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Local housing allowance
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Sanctuary Schemes) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 |
248 | 2021 |
Provide for an exception to the bedroom tax for claimants living in a social sector property that has been adapted under a sanctuary scheme in Northern Ireland. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Domestic Abuse Support (Relevant Accommodation and Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Sanctuary Schemes) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 |
991 | 2021 |
Provide for an exception to the bedroom tax for claimants living in a social sector property that has been adapted under a sanctuary scheme. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Coronavirus) (Restoration of the Minimum Income Floor) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 |
209 | 2021 |
Provide for the reintroduction of the universal credit minimum income floor in Northern Ireland over the 12 months to 31 July 2022 |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Coronavirus) (Restoration of the Minimum Income Floor) Regulations 2021 (SI.No.807/2021) |
807 | 2021 |
Provides for the DWP to have flexibility to manage the reintroduction of the minimum income floor (MIF) over the 12 months to 31 July 2022. |
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Local housing allowance
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Care Leavers and Homeless) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 |
118 | 2021 |
Includes provisions that amend paragraph 28 of Schedule 4 to the Universal Credit Regulations in Northern Ireland to increase the upper age limit at which care leavers are exempted from the shared accommodation rate from 22 to 25 years and reduce the lower age limit to qualify for the exemption from 25 to 16 years for those who have spent at least 3 months in a homeless hostel while receiving support. |
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Local housing allowance
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Care Leavers and Homeless) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 |
546 | 2021 |
Includes provisions that amend paragraph 29 of Schedule 4 to the Universal Credit Regulations to increase the upper age limit at which care leavers are exempted from the shared accommodation rate from 22 to 25 years and reduce the lower age limit to qualify for the exemption from 25 to 16 years for those who have spent at least 3 months in a homeless hostel while receiving support. |
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Claims and payments
Social Security (Claims and Payments, Employment and Support Allowance, PIP and Universal Credit) (Telephone and Video Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 |
64 | 2021 |
Include provision to specify that medical examinations and consultations can be conducted in person, by telephone or by video. |
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Claims and payments
Social Security (Claims and Payments, Employment and Support Allowance, Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit) (Telephone and Video Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 |
230 | 2021 |
Include provision to specify that medical examinations and consultations can be conducted in person, by telephone or by video. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Extension of Coronavirus Measures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 |
67 | 2021 |
Extend the universal credit uplift until Ocotber 2021 and the suspension of the universal credit minimum income floor until 31 July 2021. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Extension of Coronavirus Measures) Regulations 2021 |
313 | 2021 |
Provide that the modifications that were made by SI.No.371/2020 to the amount of the standard allowance in universal credit for the 2020/2021 tax year in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which essentially increased the underlying rates by £86.67 per assessment period, are continued to October 2021, and for extension of measures relating to the minimum income floor that had been due to expire on 30 April 2021. |
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Children and childcare
Universal Credit (Childcare in Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 |
228 | 2021 | childcare |
Allow for the continued reimbursement of universal credit childcare costs to claimants who employ nannies in Wales following the introduction of the Approval of Home Childcare Providers (Wales) Scheme 2021. |
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Work-related requirements
Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2021 |
147 | 2021 | work-related-requirements |
Extends the period for which the pilot scheme established under the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme and Amendment Regulations 2015 (SI.No.89/2015) has effect. |
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Local housing allowance
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) (Modification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 |
14 | 2021 |
Provide for local housing allowance rates in 2021/2022 to be retained at the same cash levels as applied from April 2020. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Claimants previously entitled to a severe disability premium) Amendment Regulations 2021 |
4 | 2021 | transitional-provisions natural-migration |
Substitute a new Schedule 2 to the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2014 (SI.No.1230/2014) to provide the criteria for payments of SDP transitional protection going forward, when people in receipt of SDP will no longer be prevented from claiming universal credit when the SDP Gateway is revoked from 27 January 2021. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Claimants previously entitled to a severe disability premium) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 |
2 | 2021 | transitional-provisions natural-migration |
Substitute a new Schedule 2 to the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (SR.No.226/2016) to provide the criteria for payments of SDP transitional protection going forward, when people in receipt of SDP will no longer be prevented from claiming universal credit when the SDP Gateway is revoked from 27 January 2021. |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2020 |
1519 | 2020 |
Includes amendments to the Rent Officers (Universal Credit Functions) Order 2013 (SI.No.382/2013) that freeze local housing allowance rates for 2021/2022 at the rates determined for 2020/2021. |
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Calculating income and capital
Universal Credit (Earned Income) Amendment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
226 | 2020 | assessment-of-earned-income-for-employees-under-universal-credit |
Provide for reallocating a calendar monthly payment of earnings to a different universal credit assessment period where it is necessary to maintain a regular payment cycle. |
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Calculating income and capital
Universal Credit (Earned Income) Amendment Regulations 2020 |
1138 | 2020 | assessment-of-earned-income-for-employees-under-universal-credit |
Provide for reallocating a calendar monthly payment of earnings to a different universal credit assessment period where it is necessary to maintain a regular payment cycle. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Exceptions to the Requirement not to be receiving Education) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
166 | 2020 | entitlement-to-universal-credit |
Clarify policy intention behind exception to the universal credit basic condition not to be receiving education on the grounds of receipt of a disability benefit is that the additional requirement to have a limited capability for work determination, must be met on or before the date of claim to universal credit. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Exceptions to the Requirement not to be receiving Education) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 |
827 | 2020 | entitlement-to-universal-credit |
Clarify policy intention behind exception to the universal credit basic condition not to be receiving education on the grounds of receipt of a disability benefit is that the additional requirement to have a limited capability for work determination, must be met on or before the date of claim to universal credit. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Managed Migration Pilot and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 |
826 | 2020 | transitional-provisions |
Correct a defect in the regulations that provide for a two-week run-on of income support, income-based jobseeker’s allowance and income-related employment and support allowance at the start of a universal credit claim. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Managed Migration and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
165 | 2020 | transitional-provisions |
New legislation has been issued to correct a defect in the regulations that provide for a two-week run-on of income support, income-based jobseeker’s allowance and income-related employment and support allowance at the start of a universal credit claim. |
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Residence
Social Security (Income-Related Benefits) (Persons of Northern Ireland - Family Members) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 |
683 | 2020 | residence-rules |
Provide for amendments that enable family members of relevant people of Northern Ireland to access income-related benefits on broadly the same terms as family members of citizens of the Republic of Ireland. |
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Residence
Universal Credit (Great Britain Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
129 | 2020 |
New regulations that give effect in Northern Ireland to reciprocal arrangements between Great Britain and Northern Ireland in relation to universal credit. |
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Residence
Universal Credit (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations 2020 |
677 | 2020 |
Give effect in Great Britain to reciprocal arrangements between Great Britain and Northern Ireland in relation to universal credit. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Persons who have attained state pension credit qualifying age) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
119 | 2020 | overlapping-entitlement-with-pension-age-benefits |
Make provision for the run-on of universal credit in the assessment period that a claimant reaches state pension age and related changes. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Persons who have attained state pension credit qualifying age) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 |
655 | 2020 | overlapping-entitlement-with-pension-age-benefits |
Make provision including for a run-on of universal credit in the assessment period that a claimant reaches state pension age. |
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Calculating income and capital
Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
108 | 2020 |
Make amendments to ensure that extra-statutory payments, including compensation for people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire, are disregarded from universal credit and other means-tested benefits. |
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Calculating income and capital
Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 |
618 | 2020 |
Make amendments to ensure that extra-statutory payments, including compensation for people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire, are disregarded from universal credit and other means-tested benefits. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
107 | 2020 |
Make amendments in relation to the calculation of the earnings threshold for the purpose of the benefit cap grace period, the use of the Landlord Portal to request and report changes in housing costs and in relation to childcare provisions. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 |
611 | 2020 |
Make amendments in relation to the calculation of the earnings threshold for the purpose of the benefit cap grace period in universal credit and the use of the Landlord Portal to request and report changes in housing costs. |
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Calculating income and capital
Universal Credit (Coronavirus) (Self-employed Claimants and Reclaims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
85 | 2020 | initial-claims assessment-of-self-employed-earnings |
Make provision in relation to the treatment of Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) payments tp self-employed universal credit claimants, and in relation to when a claimant can be treated as re-claiming where no award is made on an initial claim, or where a person ceases to be entitled to an award. |
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Calculating income and capital
Universal Credit (Coronavirus) (Self-employed Claimants and Reclaims) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 |
522 | 2020 | initial-claims assessment-of-self-employed-earnings |
Make provision in relation to the treatment of Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) payments to self-employed universal credit claimants, and in relation to when a claimant can be treated as re-claiming where no award is made on an initial claim, or where a person ceases to be entitled to an award. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Social Security (Coronavirus) (Prisoners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
63 | 2020 |
Make provision for individuals on temporary release from prison to access universal credit during the period of that release during the COVID-19 outbreak. NB - in Scotland prisoners are released under different powers which mean that universal credit can be paid to them without amending the reference to temporary release. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Social Security (Coronavirus) (Further Measures) Amendment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
61 | 2020 |
Make provision in relation to the start dates for the increases to the standard allowance in universal credit for 2020/2021 and to local housing allowance rates for the purposes of calculating the housing costs element which are changed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Social Security (Coronavirus) (Further Measures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
53 | 2020 |
Provide for the Secretary of State to have discretion to apply a number of measures in relation to the minimum income floor, for the standard allowance in universal credit to be modified in relation to 2020/2021, to set the local housing allowance at the lower of rent at the 30th percentile of local rents and revised national caps, and to lift work search requirements during the COVID-19 outbreak. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Social Security (Coronavirus) (Further Measures) Regulations 2020 |
371 | 2020 |
Provide for the Secretary of State to have discretion to apply a number of measures in relation to the minimum income floor, for the standard allowance in universal credit to be modified in relation to 2020/2021, to set the local housing allowance at the lower of rent at the 30th percentile of local rents and revised national caps, and to lift work search requirements during the COVID-19 outbreak |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Social Security (Coronavirus) (Further Measures) Amendment Regulations 2020 |
397 | 2020 |
Make provision in relation to the start dates for the increases to the standard allowance in universal credit for 2020/2021 and to local housing allowance rates for the purposes of calculating the housing costs element which are changed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Social Security (Coronavirus) (Prisoners) Regulations 2020 |
409 | 2020 |
Make provision for individuals on temporary release from prison to access universal credit during the period of that release during the COVID-19 outbreak. NB - in Scotland prisoners are released under different powers which mean that universal credit can be paid to them without amending the reference to temporary release. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Coronavirus Disease) Regulations 2020 |
289 | 2020 |
Include provision, in relation to benefits and the coronavirus outbreak, giving the Secretary of State discretion to treat affected universal credit claimants as having limited capability for work (LCW) and to suspend the application of the minimum income floor for self-employed claimants when they are treated as having LCW as a result of coronavirus or in the period following being treated as having LCW. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Coronavirus) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
33 | 2020 |
Include provision, in relation to benefits and the coronavirus outbreak, giving the Secretary of State discretion to treat affected universal credit claimants as having limited capability for work (LCW) and to suspend the application of the minimum income floor for self-employed claimants when they are treated as having LCW as a result of coronavirus or in the period following being treated as having LCW. |
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Work-related requirements
Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2020 |
152 | 2020 | work-related-requirements |
Extends the period for which the pilot scheme established under the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme and Amendment Regulations 2015 (SI.No.89/2015) has effect. |
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Local housing allowance
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 |
14 | 2020 |
Includes amendments to the Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (SR.No.222/2016) that increase local housing allowance (LHA) rates by 1.7 per cent, in line with the consumer price index, and that also increase the national maximum LHA caps by 1.7 per cent. |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2020 |
27 | 2020 |
Includes amendments to the Rent Officers (Universal Credit Functions) Order 2013 (SI.No.382/2013) that increase local housing allowance (LHA) rates by 1.7 per cent, in line with the consumer price index, and that also increase the national maximum LHA caps by 1.7 per cent. |
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Implementation of welfare reform
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 |
2006 | 2015 |
Makes provision equivalent to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 for Northern Ireland with limited exceptions including in relation to sanctions and top-up payments. |
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Claims and payments
Social Security (Payments on Account of Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 |
223 | 2016 | advances |
Provide for the introduction of ‘universal credit advances’ in place of existing interim payments and some crisis loans, and of ‘budgeting advances’ in place of existing budgeting loans. |
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Claims and payments
Social Security (Payments on Account of Benefit) Regulations 2013 |
383 | 2013 | advances |
Provide for the introduction of ‘universal credit advances’ in place of existing interim payments and some crisis loans, and of ‘budgeting advances’ in place of existing budgeting loans. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform and Work (Northern Ireland) Order 2016 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2017 |
46 | 2017 |
Makes provision for the introduction of the two-child limit in universal credit in Northern Ireland. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform and Work (Northern Ireland) Order 2016 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2017 |
166 | 2017 |
Brings into force provisions in the Welfare Reform and Work (Northern Ireland) Order 2016 relating to the removal of the ability for the limited capability for work element to be paid to universal credit claimants and a provision which makes changes to the work-related requirements which apply to certain responsible carers in universal credit. |
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Children and childcare
Universal Credit (Childcare Costs and Minimum Income Floor) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 |
173 | 2019 |
Make amendments that extend the period for reporting childcare costs by a month, and make it clear that all gainfully self-employed claimants are subject to the minimum income floor. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2016 |
215 | 2016 |
Commences provisions in preparation for the introduction of universal credit including regulation-making powers and provisions in relation to entitlement, awards, and claimant responsibilities. |
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Children and childcare
Social Security (Restrictions on Amounts for Children and Qualifying Young Persons) Amendment Regulations 2017 |
376 | 2017 |
Make provision to introduce a two-child limit for the purposes of universal credit, income support, jobseeker’s allowance and housing benefit. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Social Security (Social Care Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 |
291 | 2017 |
Include amendments to the definition of ‘registered social worker’ for the purposes of universal credit. |
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Deductions
Fines, Council Tax and Community Charges (Deductions from Universal Credit and Other Benefits) Regulations 2013 |
612 | 2013 |
Make provision in relation to deductions from benefits to recover fines and compensation orders, and arrears of council tax and community charges on the introduction of universal credit. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 |
630 | 2013 |
Make consequential amendments to primary and secondary legislation relating to the introduction of universal credit. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 |
803 | 2013 |
Make amendments to universal credit legislation in relation to foster carers and Armed Forces personnel. |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2013 |
1544 | 2013 |
Make amendments in relation to how and when local housing allowance rates are determined. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Consequential Provisions) (Childcare, Housing and Transport) (Wales) Regulations 2013 |
1788 | 2013 |
Make amendments to legislation in the fields of childcare, housing and transport relating to the introduction of universal credit and the abolition of income-related employment and support allowance and income-based jobseeker’s allowance. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) and Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2013 |
2070 | 2013 |
Make amendments including the removal of the temporary exemption for universal credit claimants in pathfinder areas from the benefit cap. |
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Housing costs element
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 |
2828 | 2013 |
Make amendments to allow an additional bedroom to be allocated under the size criteria where a severely disabled child who would normally be expected to share a bedroom is not reasonably able to do so due to their disability. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 |
597 | 2014 |
Make amendments in relation to the new social security benefits introduced under the Welfare Reform Act 2012, in particular, universal credit and new style contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) and employment and support allowance (ESA). |
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Benefit cap
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Supported Accommodation) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 |
771 | 2014 |
Make amendments to extend provisions that prevent the housing costs of those living in ‘exempt accommodation’ from being included in the calculation of the benefit cap. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 |
1626 | 2014 |
Make amendments to provisions concerning the transition from existing benefits to universal credit including replacement of definition of ‘exempt accommodation’ with that of ‘specified accommodation’. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Digital Service) Amendment Regulations 2014 |
2887 | 2014 |
Make amendments to universal credit rules for areas where DWP is to test the ‘Digital Service’, including in relation to childcare costs and assessment periods, that do not apply in postcode areas where benefit is already in force. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 |
2888 | 2014 |
Make amendments to a number of different regulations relating to universal credit and new-style jobseeker’s allowance and employment and support allowance, as well as to certain older benefits including income support and income-based jobseeker’s allowance - in particular, relating to the way earnings are calculated and to the way of assessing whether a person is determined as blind. |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Local Housing Allowance Amendments) Order 2014 |
3126 | 2014 |
Makes provision for local housing allowance to rise by four per cent for specified categories of dwelling in some areas. |
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Income and capital
Universal Credit (Surpluses and Self-employed Losses) (Digital Service) Amendment Regulations 2015 |
345 | 2015 |
Make provision for the surplus earnings rule in universal credit. NB - regulation 5, introduced from 11 April 2018 by SI.No.65/2018, provides for the Secretary of State to extend the ‘temporary de minimis period’ for surplus earnings by way of a determination - the most recent determination was made on 5 March 2020 extending the £2,500 threshold to 31 March 2021 and is published in the Guidance to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 Regulations. |
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Claims and payments
Universal Credit (EEA Jobseekers) Amendment Regulations 2015 |
546 | 2015 |
Make provision that removes the right of European Economic Area (EEA) nationals and their family members to claim universal credit and for all universal credit claimants, including EEA nationals, are subject to work-related requirements on the same basis. |
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Claims and payments
Universal Credit (Waiting Days) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 |
1362 | 2015 |
Make provision for the introduction of a seven day period at the start of certain claims for universal credit in respect of which entitlement to benefit does not arise. |
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Income and capital
Universal Credit (Work Allowance) Amendment Regulations 2015 |
1649 | 2015 |
Make amendments that reduce the range of work allowances available to universal credit claimants from seven to two, amend the rates of work allowances for some claimants, and remove work allowances for claimants who are not responsible for a child or qualifying young person and do not have limited capability for work. |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Local Housing Allowance Amendments) Order 2015 |
1753 | 2015 |
Makes amendments in relation to changes to local housing allowance assessments as a result of the four year freeze in benefit rates announced in the Summer Budget 2015 and clarifies the position for claimants with an ‘existing’ universal credit award. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 |
1754 | 2015 |
Make amendments including changes in relation to calculation of earnings, exemption from waiting days for care leavers and avoiding duplication of payments to carers. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 |
1780 | 2015 |
Make provision so that claimants in six month ‘re-award’ period of universal credit may not claim income support, housing benefit or tax credits. |
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Income and capital
Universal Credit (Surpluses and Self-employed Losses) (Change of coming into force) Regulations 2016 |
215 | 2016 |
Make provision for the further postponement of the universal credit ‘surpluses and self-employed losses’ regulations. |
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Overpayments and recovery
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 |
232 | 2016 |
Make modifications to the requirements for notifications issued by HMRC when notifying someone of how an existing tax credit overpayment will be recovered such as through recovery by deductions from benefit including universal credit. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 |
236 | 2016 |
Make amendments, the majority of which add a reference to universal credit, or to particular elements of universal credit, to existing legislation. |
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Benefit cap
Benefit Cap (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 |
375 | 2016 |
Make provisions specific to universal credit including; that no amount of housing benefit is to be included when determining entitlement to welfare benefits, how the monthly level of the benefit cap will be applied, and three new categories of a claimant or young person that attract an exemption from the cap. In addition, the regulations extend the availability of discretionary housing payments to include all tenants affected by the reduced benefit cap. |
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Children and childcare
Universal Credit (Care Leavers and Looked After Children) Amendment Regulations 2016 |
543 | 2016 |
Make provision for a new definition of ‘care leaver’ and ‘looked after by a local authority’ for the purposes of universal credit. |
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Sanctions
ocial Security (Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 |
678 | 2016 |
Make amendments relating to sanction periods for repeat offences, and the write-off of sanctions and hardship payments for universal credit claimants with no work-related requirements. |
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Benefit cap
Benefit Cap (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 |
909 | 2016 |
Make provisions specific to universal credit including; that no amount of housing benefit is to be included when determining entitlement to welfare benefits, how the monthly level of the benefit cap will be applied, and three new categories of a claimant or young person that attract an exemption from the cap. |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Local Housing Allowance Amendments) Order 2016 |
1179 | 2016 |
Makes amendments to the principal order to increase specified local housing allowance rates by three per cent in specified areas where there are high rent increases. |
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Housing costs element
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 |
70 | 2017 |
Make amendments including to allow an extra bedroom where the claimant or their partner requires overnight care or where due to disability a member of a couple is unable to share a bedroom. |
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Benefit cap
Universal Credit (Benefit Cap Earnings Exception) Amendment Regulations 2017 |
138 | 2017 |
Make amendments to how the earnings threshold for exception from the benefit cap for universal credit claimants is calculated. |
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Housing costs element
Universal Credit (Housing Costs Element for claimants aged 18 to 21) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 |
142 | 2017 |
Make provision to remove the amount to be included in an award of universal credit for housing costs for a renter who is aged 18 to 21, subject to all work-related requirements, and is a single person. |
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Local housing allowance
Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 |
144 | 2017 |
Make provision for a three per cent uplift of LHA rates, subject to a maximum LHA rate for each category of dwelling, used in the calculation of universal credit housing costs in designated broad market rental areas that have been subject to higher rental increases in Northern Ireland. |
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Benefit cap
Universal Credit (Benefit Cap Earnings Exception) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 |
145 | 2017 |
Make amendments to the earnings threshold for exception from the benefit cap for universal credit claimants. |
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Income and capital
Universal Credit (Reduction of the Earnings Taper Rate) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 |
147 | 2017 |
Amend the taper rate applied to earnings above any applicable work allowance to 63 per cent. |
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Income and capital
Universal Credit (Surpluses and Self-employed Losses) (Change of coming into force) Regulations 2017 |
197 | 2017 |
Postpone the coming into force of the Universal Credit (Surpluses and Self-employed Losses) (Digital Service) Amendment Regulations 2015 (SI.No.345/2015) until 2 April 2018. |
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Housing costs element
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 |
213 | 2017 |
Make amendments including to allow an extra bedroom where the claimant or their partner requires overnight care or where due to disability a member of a couple is unable to share a bedroom. |
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Housing costs element
Universal Credit (Housing Costs Element for claimants aged 18 to 21) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 |
252 | 2017 |
Make amendments to remove entitlement to universal credit housing costs for a renter who is aged 18 to 21, subject to all work-related requirements, and is a single person. |
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Income and capital
Universal Credit (Reduction of the Earnings Taper Rate) Amendment Regulations 2017 |
348 | 2017 |
Amend the taper rate applied to earnings in excess of applicable work allowances to 63 per cent. |
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Housing costs element
Universal Credit (Tenant Incentive Scheme) Amendment Regulations 2017 |
427 | 2017 |
Make provision for reductions in a claimant’s rent or service charges applied by a provider of social housing under approved incentive schemes to be disregarded in the calculation of the housing costs element of universal credit. |
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Claims and payments
Universal Credit (Claims and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 |
436 | 2017 |
Make amendments to extend payment flexibilities - twice-monthly payments and payments direct to a landlord in Scotland - to all full service claimants irrespective of date of claim. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013 |
386 | 2013 |
The first set of transitional regulations (now revoked) that reflected the government’s decision to introduce universal credit from 29 April 2013 only for a small number of claimants in ‘pathfinder’ areas in Oldham, Warrington, Tameside and Wigan. |
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Local housing allowance
Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 |
36 | 2018 |
Make provision for the continuation of a three per cent increase in local housing allowance rates in designated areas where there are high rent increases. |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2017 |
1323 | 2017 |
Makes provision for the continuation of a three per cent increase in local housing allowance rates in designated areas where there are high rent increases. |
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Local housing allowance
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 |
209 | 2018 |
Make amendments to the principal order to increase specified local housing allowance rates by 3 per cent in specified areas. |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2018 |
1332 | 2018 |
Makes amendments to the principal order to increase specified local housing allowance rates by three per cent in specified areas. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments, Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2018 |
65 | 2018 |
Make changes to universal credit, including those announced in the 2017 Autumn Budget such as to allow for a transitional housing benefit payment and to abolish the seven waiting days at the start of a universal credit claim. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit (Persons Required to Provide Information, Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 |
92 | 2018 |
Make changes to universal credit, including those announced in the 2017 Autumn Budget such as to allow for a transitional housing benefit payment and to abolish the seven waiting days at the start of a universal credit claim, to bring Northern Ireland legislation into parity with legislation in Great Britain. |
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Income and capital
Social Security (Treatment of Arrears of Benefit) Regulations 2018 |
932 | 2018 |
Include provision relating to the disregard of benefit arrears payments or compensation of £5,000 or more in universal credit claims. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 |
187 | 2018 |
Make miscellaneous amendments including in relation to; capital disregards in universal credit where a payment of arrears has been received during an earlier award; the ordering of children in relation to the two-child limit; the local housing allowance shared accommodation rate; and that ensure universal credit regulations align with tax regulation. |
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Miscellaneous amendments
Universal Credit and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 |
1129 | 2018 |
Include amendments relating to the ordering of children in relation to the two-child limit, the local housing allowance shared accommodation rate, and that ensure universal credit regulations align with tax regulation. |
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Children and childcare
Universal Credit (Restriction on Amounts for Children and Qualifying Young Persons) (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 |
3 | 2019 |
Make provision for the continued payment of the child element in new claims to universal credit for all children born before 6 April 2017 (where entitlement exists). |
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Children and childcare
Universal Credit (Restriction on Amounts for Children and Qualifying Young Persons) (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2019 |
27 | 2019 |
Make provision for the continued payment of the child element in new claims to universal credit for all children born before 6 April 2017 (where entitlement exists). |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2017 |
118 | 2017 |
Includes provision to enable discretionary housing payments to be made to those entitled to universal credit. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2017 |
216 | 2017 |
Makes provision for the introduction of universal credit in specified postcode areas from 15 November 2017 to 13 December 2017. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2018 |
1 | 2018 |
Makes provision for the introduction of universal credit in specified postcode areas from 17 January 2018 to 7 March 2018. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 11 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2018 |
97 | 2018 |
Makes provision for the introduction of universal credit in specified postcode areas from 16 May 2018 to 27 June 2018. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No.12 & Transitional & Transitory Provisions and Commencement No.9, 10 and 11 & Transitional & Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order |
138 | 2018 |
Makes provision for the introduction of universal credit in specified postcode areas from 5 September 2018 to 5 December 2018. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 13 and Savings and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 8 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2019 |
4 | 2019 | conditions-of-entitlement |
Brings into force provisions which amend the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 to exclude mixed-age couples from entitlement to state pension credit. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 14 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2019 |
7 | 2019 |
Makes provisions in relation to the abolition of tax credits including to prevent claims for universal credit by frontier workers and to remove the general exceptions in transitional provisions that permitted new claims for a tax credit by mixed-age couples, single claimants over pension age and couples where both members are over pension age. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 13 and Savings and Transitional Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2019 |
107 | 2019 |
Makes provision for the availability of means-tested benefits where universal credit is or would be unavailable to a member of a mixed-age couple that is also prevented from claiming pension credit or pension-age housing benefit. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 33) Order 2019 |
1135 | 2019 |
Brings into force, from 18 July 2019, the remaining regulation-making powers for managed migration by commencing, in so far as they are not already in force, section 36 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2012. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 31 and Savings and Transitional Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2019 |
935 | 2019 |
Makes amendments to the principal order SI.No.37/2019 to provide for the availability of means-tested benefits where universal credit is or would be unavailable to a member of a mixed-age couple that is also prevented from claiming pension credit or pension-age housing benefit. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 32 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2019 |
167 | 2019 |
Commences subsection 1(f) of section 33 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (abolition of tax credits) from 1 February 2019 in Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, for Great Britain only, includes provision for removing the general exceptions in transitional cases that permitted new claims for a tax credit by mixed-age couples, single claimants over pension age and couples where both members are over pension age. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 31 and Savings and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 21 and 23 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2019 |
37 | 2019 | conditions-of-entitlement |
Brings into force paragraph 64 of Schedule 2 to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 which makes amendments that exclude mixed-age couples from entitlement to state pension credit. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) (No.2) Order 2018 |
881 | 2018 |
Provides for the universal credit full service to be rolled out between 5 September and 12 December 2018 in the postcode areas set out in the Schedule to the Order, completing the roll-out of the full service across Great Britain. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2018 |
532 | 2018 |
Provides for the expansion of the universal credit full service (‘Digital Service’ in legislation) to further postcodes between 2 May 2018 and 25 July 2018. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9, 21 and 23 (Amendment), Commencement No. 11, 13, 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 (Modification), Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2018 |
138 | 2018 |
Provides for the expansion of the universal credit full service (‘Digital Service’ in legislation) to further postcodes between 7 February 2018 and 25 April 2018. It also provides for universal credit claimants who are living in temporary accommodation to claim housing benefit instead of the universal credit housing element from 11 April 2018. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2017 |
952 | 2017 |
Provides for the expansion of the universal credit full service (‘Digital Service’ in legislation) to further postcodes between 4 October 2017 and 24 January 2018. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 29 and Commencement No. 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2017 |
664 | 2017 |
Provides for the expansion of the universal credit full service (‘Digital Service’ in legislation) to postcodes administered by a total of 30 jobcentres on a weekly basis between 5 and 19 July. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9 and 21 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2017 |
483 | 2017 |
Makes provision to enable claims for income-related employment and support allowance, income-based jobseeker’s allowance, housing benefit, income support, and tax credits to be made where a person is prevented from claiming universal credit due to having more than two children or qualifying young people by virtue of regulation 39 of the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (SI.No.1230/2014). |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2017 |
584 | 2017 |
Provides for the expansion of the universal credit full service (‘Digital Service’ in legislation) to postcodes administered by a total of 13 jobcentres on a weekly basis between 3 May and 28 June 2017. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 11, 13, 16, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2017 |
57 | 2017 |
Provides for the expansion of universal credit full service (‘Digital Service’ in legislation) to postcodes administered by a total of 15 jobcentres on a weekly basis between 1 February and 26 April 2017. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2016 |
963 | 2016 |
Provides for the expansion of the universal credit full service (‘Digital Service’ in legislation) to postcodes administered by a total of 20 jobcentres on a weekly basis between 5 October and 14 December 2016. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 13, 14, 16, 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2016 |
596 | 2016 |
Provides for the expansion of the universal credit full service (‘Digital Service’ in legislation) to postcodes administered by a total of 16 jobcentres from 25 May, 29 June to 27 July 2016. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 27 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2016 |
407 | 2016 |
Provides for the introduction of the universal credit Digital Service in postcodes administered by Croydon, London Bridge and Musselburgh jobcentres from 23 March 2016, and in Purley, Thornton Heath and Great Yarmouth jobcentres from 27 April 2016. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 26 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2016 |
33 | 2016 |
Provides for the introduction of the universal credit ‘Digital Service’ in postcodes administered by Sutton, London Bridge, Hounslow and Croydon jobcentres from 27 January 2016 to 24 February 2016. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 25 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2015 |
1930 | 2015 |
Makes provision for the universal credit ‘Digital Service’ to be extended to claimants in postcode part-districts SM5 1, SM5 3, SM5 9, SM6 0 and SM6 6 from 2 December 2015. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2015 |
1537 | 2015 |
Makes provision for the further roll-out of universal credit in stages from 21 September 2015 to 25 April 2016. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 23 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2015 |
740 | 2015 |
Makes provision in relation to the further roll-out of the ‘Digital Service’ in consequence of a defect in SI.No.634/2015. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 22 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2015 |
101 | 2015 |
Makes provision for the further roll-out of universal credit in specified geographical areas between February and July 2015. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 21 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2015 |
33 | 2015 |
Makes provision in relation to the further roll-out of universal credit, to reopen testing of the DWP’s ‘Digital Service’ in parts of Sutton from 28 January 2015. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 19 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2015 |
32 | 2015 |
Amends a number of earlier commencement orders to make provision for the further roll-out of universal credit to claimants with responsibility for children. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 20 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2014 |
3094 | 2014 |
Makes provision for the testing of the DWP’s ‘Digital Service’ in parts of Sutton. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9, 11, 13 14, 16, 17 and 19 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2014 |
3067 | 2014 |
Modifies the ‘gateway conditions’ by removing the condition that a claimant must not have responsibility for children or young persons in a case where the claimant resides in certain postcode districts or part-districts. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 19 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2014 |
2321 | 2014 |
Makes provision for claims for universal credit to be made by claimants satisfying the ‘gateway conditions’ in designated postcode districts in the North West of England. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9, 11, 13, 14, 16 and 17 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment) (No. 2)) Order 2014 |
1923 | 2014 |
Makes amendments including to remove the condition that a claimant must be a single person in order for the universal credit provisions to come into force where a claim is made. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9, 11, 13 14, 16 and 17 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2014 |
1661 | 2014 |
Makes amendments to the universal credit ‘gateway conditions’, and also provides for the roll-out of universal credit to couples. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 17 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2014 |
1583 | 2014 |
Makes provision for claims for universal credit to be made by claimants satisfying the ‘gateway conditions’ in areas in the North West of England. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9, 11, 13, 14 and 16 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2014 |
1452 | 2014 |
Makes changes relating to the introduction of universal credit, including replacement of ‘pathfinder group conditions’ with ‘gateway conditions’ for claims from 16 June 2014. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 16 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2014 |
209 | 2014 |
Makes provision for claims for universal credit to be made by claimants satisfying the ‘pathfinder group conditions’ in Harrogate, Bath and Shotton between February and April 2014. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 14 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2013 |
2846 | 2013 |
Makes provision for claims for universal credit to be made by claimants satisfying the ‘pathfinder group conditions’ in n the Rugby and Inverness pathfinder areas from 25 November 2013. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 13 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2013 |
2657 | 2013 |
Makes provision for claims for universal credit to be made by claimants satisfying the ‘pathfinder group conditions’ in parts of Manchester and West London from 28 October 2013. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 11 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2013 |
1511 | 2013 |
Makes provision for claims for universal credit to be made by claimants satisfying the ‘pathfinder group conditions’ in the Wigan pathfinder area from 1 July 2013, and the Oldham and Warrington pathfinder areas from 29 July 2013. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No.8 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013 |
358 | 2013 |
Includes provisions to allow regulations to be made in relation to universal credit and in relation to claims and payments and decisions and appeals. |
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Claims and payments
Universal Credit (Claims and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 |
227 | 2017 | payments |
Make provision to request twice monthly payments and direct payment of housing costs to landlords for new full service universal credit claimants in Scotland on or after 4 October 2017. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 |
146 | 2017 | assessing-capability-for-work |
Provide for the omission of references to the universal credit limited capability for work element which is no longer included in awards from 3 April 2017, and sets out the circumstances in which some claimants will be protected.
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Transitional provisions
Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 |
204 | 2017 | assessing-capability-for-work |
Provide for the omission of references to the universal credit limited capability for work element which is no longer included in awards from 3 April 2017, and sets out the circumstances in which some claimants’ entitlement to the element will be protected. |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Universal Credit Functions) Order 2013 |
382 | 2013 | calculating-housing-costs-element-for-renters |
Provides for rent officers to make determinations relating to local housing allowance, which are used in calculating entitlement to the housing costs element of universal credit for tenants renting in the private sector and those in temporary accommodation. |
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Managed migration
Universal Credit (Managed Migration and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 |
152 | 2019 | transitional-protection-for-students-under-managed-migration managed-migration transitional-provisions |
Set out the process for the managed migration of claimants from existing benefits to universal credit (with a restriction that a migration notice cannot be issued while the managed migration pilot is underway in Great Britain), the circumstances in which transitional protection is given and the manner in which it is calculated. They also include provision in relation to certain claimants who were entitled to a severe disability premium, claimants who are self-employed and claimants in hardship as a result of managed migration. |
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In Work Pilot Scheme
Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2019 |
249 | 2019 | work-related-requirements |
Extends the period for which the pilot scheme established under the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme and Amendment Regulations 2015 (SI.No.89/2015) has effect. |
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In Work Pilot Scheme
Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2018 |
168 | 2018 | work-related-requirements |
Extends the period for which the pilot scheme established under the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme and Amendment Regulations 2015 (SI.No.89/2015) have effect |
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In Work Pilot Scheme
Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme and Amendment Regulations 2015 |
89 | 2015 | work-related-requirements |
Establish a pilot scheme for the purpose of testing the imposition of work-related requirements on universal credit claimants in paid work where those requirements would otherwise be suspended by virtue of regulation 99(6) of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 (S.I.No.376/2013). |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2017 |
190 | 2017 | natural-migration |
Brings into force from 27 September 2017 provisions of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (SI.No.2006/2015) introducing universal credit and abolishing income-related employment and support allowance and income-based jobseeker’s allowance. |
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Overpayments and recovery
Social Security (Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 |
224 | 2016 | overpayment-recovery advances deductions |
Make provision relating to recovery of amounts which are recoverable under social security legislation. |
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Decisions and appeals
Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 |
221 | 2016 | suspension-and-termination appeals revisions supersessions calculating-housing-costs-element-for-owner-occupiers calculating-housing-costs-element-for-renters |
Make provision about decision making and appeals for new style ESA and JSA, personal independence payment, and universal credit. |
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Claims and payments
Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 |
220 | 2016 | initial-claims notifying-changes-of-circumstances payments appointees deductions |
Make provisions about the making of claims for and the payment of those benefits and the circumstances in which payments may be made directly to a third party. |
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Claims and payments
Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 |
380 | 2013 | notifying-changes-of-circumstances payments deductions appointees initial-claims |
Make provisions about the making of claims for and the payment of those benefits and the circumstances in which payments may be made directly to a third party. |
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Local housing allowance
Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 |
222 | 2016 | calculating-housing-costs-element-for-renters |
Require the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to determine broad rental market areas and local housing allowance rates to be used in calculating entitlement to the housing costs element of universal credit for tenants renting in the private sector. |
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Universal credit regulations
Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 |
216 | 2016 | notional-income receiving-education treated-as-having-lcw-or-lcwra childcare mo-work-related-requirements capital benefit-cap calculating-housing-costs-element-for-owner-occupiers unearned-income sanctions treatment-of-student-income child-and-disabled-child-elements housing-cost-contribution assessment-of-self-employed-earnings assessing-capability-for-work work-related-requirements bedroom-tax work-related-requirements-for-students carer-element calculating-housing-costs-element-for-renters liability-for-housing-costs entitlement-to-universal-credit basic-conditions-of-entitlement conditions-of-entitlement claimant-commitment assessment-of-earned-income-for-employees-under-universal-credit residence-rules hardship-payments two-child-policy natural-migration |
Make provisions for universal credit, including entitlement, elements of the award, capability for work or work-related activity, calculation of income and capital, and claimant responsibilities (and also make provision for a benefit cap). |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 |
226 | 2016 | transfer-from-legacy-benefits overlapping-entitlement-with-pension-age-benefits transitional-protection-for-students-under-managed-migration two-child-policy transitional-provisions managed-migration assessing-capability-for-work natural-migration |
Make provision for the introduction of universal credit in Northern Ireland. |
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SDP gateway
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (SDP Gateway) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 |
2 | 2019 | natural-migration |
Set out provisions to introduce the SDP gateway, preventing claims to universal credit by claimants entitled to an SDP - or who have been within the last month - and that make consequential amendments to provide for such claimants to continue to claim existing legacy benefits. |
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Sanctions
Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Credit (Higher-Level Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 |
201 | 2019 |
Make provision to reduce the maximum duration of a higher level sanction period from 78 weeks to 26 weeks. |
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Sanctions
Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Credit (Higher-Level Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 |
1357 | 2019 |
Make provision to reduce the maximum duration of a higher level sanction period from 156 weeks to 26 weeks. |
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Decisions and appeals
Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2013 |
381 | 2013 | suspension-and-termination appeals revisions supersessions calculating-housing-costs-element-for-renters calculating-housing-costs-element-for-owner-occupiers |
Make provision about decision making and appeals for new style ESA and JSA, personal independence payment, and universal credit. |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 23 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2015 |
634 | 2015 | natural-migration |
Makes provision for the expansion of full service univseral credit to specified postcode districts following initial testing of the ‘Digital Service’ in parts of Sutton (postcode part-district SM5 2). |
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Commencement order
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 8 and Savings and Transitional Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2013 |
983 | 2013 | natural-migration |
The first commencement order to roll out universal credit, including provision for the introduction of universal credit and the abolition of income-related ESA and income-based JSA. |
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Overpayments and recovery
Social Security (Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 2013 |
384 | 2013 | hardship-payments overpayment-recovery deductions advances |
Make provision relating to recovery of amounts which are recoverable under social security legislation. |
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Managed migration
Universal Credit (Managed Migration Pilot and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 |
1152 | 2019 | managed-migration transitional-provisions |
Set out the process for the managed migration pilot of up to 10,000 claimants from existing benefits to universal credit, the circumstances in which transitional protection is given and the manner in which it is calculated. The regulations also include provision in relation to certain claimants who were entitled to a severe disability premium, claimants who are self-employed and claimants in hardship as a result of managed migration. |
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Transitional provisions
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 |
1230 | 2014 | overlapping-entitlement-with-pension-age-benefits two-child-policy transitional-protection-for-students-under-managed-migration transfer-from-legacy-benefits transitional-provisions managed-migration natural-migration assessing-capability-for-work |
Make provision for the second phase of the replacement of ‘existing benefits’ by universal credit (revoking the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013 (SI.No.386/2013), including for more complex transitional issues faced by families and claimants on a wider range of existing benefits. |
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SDP gateway
Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (SDP Gateway) Amendment Regulations 2019 |
10 | 2019 | natural-migration |
Set out provisions to introduce the SDP gateway, preventing claims to universal credit by claimants entitled to an SDP - or who have been within the last month - and that make consequential amendments to provide for such claimants to continue to claim existing legacy benefits. |
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Local housing allowance
Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Local Housing Allowance Amendments) Order 2013 |
2978 | 2013 |
Provides for an alternative way of determining local housing allowance rates in specified circumstances. |
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Universal credit regulations
Universal Credit Regulations 2013 |
376 | 2013 | benefit-cap calculating-housing-costs-element-for-owner-occupiers unearned-income hardship-payments sanctions treatment-of-student-income child-and-disabled-child-elements housing-cost-contribution assessment-of-self-employed-earnings assessing-capability-for-work work-related-requirements bedroom-tax work-related-requirements-for-students carer-element calculating-housing-costs-element-for-renters liability-for-housing-costs entitlement-to-universal-credit basic-conditions-of-entitlement claimant-commitment assessment-of-earned-income-for-employees-under-universal-credit residence-rules notional-income receiving-education two-child-policy treated-as-having-lcw-or-lcwra childcare mo-work-related-requirements capital conditions-of-entitlement natural-migration |
Make provisions for universal credit, including entitlement, elements of the award, capability for work or work-related activity, calculation of income and capital, and claimant responsibilities (and also make provision for a benefit cap).
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