The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015

The carer element of universal credit and state pension credit

16.—(1) The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 6(5)(b) (amount of the guarantee credit), after the words “1992 Act” insert “, or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element under regulation 29 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013,”.

(3) In paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 (circumstances in which persons are treated as being or not being severely disabled)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(a)(iii), after the words “(carer’s allowance)” insert “, or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element,”;

(b) in the closing words of sub-paragraph (1)(b)—

(i) after the words “under section 70 of the 1992 Act” insert “, or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element,”; and

(ii) after the words “such an allowance” insert “under section 70, or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element,”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (1)(c)(iv), after the words “1992 Act” insert “, or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element, in”;

(d) in sub-paragraph (2)(c), after the words “1992 Act” insert “, or as having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element,”; and

(e) after sub-paragraph (3) insert—

“(4) For the purposes of this paragraph, a person has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element if the person has an award of universal credit which includes an amount which is the carer element under regulation 29 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013.”.

(1)

S.I. 2002/1792; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2003/2274, 2007/719 and 2015/457.