The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014

Transition from old style ESA U.K.

19.—(1) This regulation applies where—

(a) an award of universal credit is made to a claimant who was entitled to old style ESA on the date on which the claim for universal credit was made or treated as made (“the relevant date”); and

[F1 (b) on or before the relevant date it had been determined that the claimant had limited capability for work or limited capability for work-related activity (within the meaning of Part 1 of the 2007 Act).]

(2) Where, on or before the relevant date, it had been determined that the claimant [F2 had limited capability for work (within the meaning of Part 1 of the 2007 Act)]—

F3 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b) the claimant is to be treated as having limited capability for work for the purposes of F4 ... section 21(1)(a) of the Act.

F5 (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) Where, on or before the relevant date, it had been determined that the claimant [F6 had limited capability for work-related activity (within the meaning of Part 1 of the 2007 Act) or was treated as having limited capability for work-related activity]—

(a) regulation 27(3) of the Universal Credit Regulations does not apply; and

(b) the claimant is to be treated as having limited capability for work and work-related activity for the purposes of regulation 27(1)(b) of those Regulations and section 19(2)(a) of the Act.

(5) Unless the assessment phase applied and had not ended at the relevant date, in relation to a claimant who is treated as having limited capability for work and work-related activity under paragraph (4)(4)(b)—

(a) regulation 28 of the Universal Credit Regulations does not apply; and

(b) the LCWRA element is (subject to the provisions of Part 4 of the Universal Credit Regulations) to be included in the award of universal credit with effect from the beginning of the first assessment period.

(6) For the purposes of this regulation, a determination that the claimant [F7 had limited capability for work or, as the case may be, limited capability for work-related activity (within the meaning of Part 1 of the 2007 Act)], is to be taken into account even if the award of old style ESA subsequently terminated (in so far as it was an award of income-related employment and support allowance) before the date on which that determination was made, by virtue of an order made under section 150(3) of the Act.

(7) Where a claimant is treated, by virtue of this regulation, as having limited capability for work or, as the case may be, limited capability for work and work-related activity, the Secretary of State may at any time make a fresh determination as to these matters, in accordance with the Universal Credit Regulations.

(8) In this regulation and in regulations 20 to 27—

[F8 “assessment phase” has the same meaning as in the 2007 Act M1 ;]

“incapacity benefit” and “severe disablement allowance” have the same meanings as in Schedule 4 to that Act;

[F9 “LCWRA element” has the same meaning as in the Universal Credit Regulations M2 .]

(9) For the purposes of this regulation and regulation 20, references to cases in which the assessment phase applied are references to cases in which sections 2(2)(a) [F10 and 4(4)(a)] of the 2007 Act applied and references to cases in which the assessment phase did not apply are references to cases in which those sections did not apply M3 .

[F11 (10) For the purposes of this regulation, references to a determination that the claimant had limited capability for work do not include a determination made under regulation 30 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 (conditions for treating a claimant as having limited capability for work until a determination about limited capability for work has been made).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 19(1)(b) substituted (3.4.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), regs. 1, 5(2)(a) (with Sch. 2 paras. 8-15)

F2 Words in reg. 19(2) substituted (3.4.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), regs. 1, 5(2)(b)(i) (with Sch. 2 paras. 8-15)

F3 Reg. 19(2)(a) omitted (3.4.2017) by virtue of The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), regs. 1, 5(2)(b)(ii) (with Sch. 2 paras. 8-15)

F4 Words in reg. 19(2)(b) omitted (3.4.2017) by virtue of The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), regs. 1, 5(2)(b)(iii) (with Sch. 2 paras. 8-15)

F5 Reg. 19(3) omitted (3.4.2017) by virtue of The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), regs. 1, 5(2)(c) (with Sch. 2 paras. 8-15)

F6 Words in reg. 19(4) substituted (3.4.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), regs. 1, 5(2)(d) (with Sch. 2 paras. 8-15)

F7 Words in reg. 19(6) substituted (3.4.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), regs. 1, 5(2)(e) (with Sch. 2 paras. 8-15)

F8 Words in reg. 19(8) substituted (3.4.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), regs. 1, 5(2)(f)(i) (with Sch. 2 paras. 8-15)

F9 Words in reg. 19(8) substituted (3.4.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), regs. 1, 5(2)(f)(ii) (with Sch. 2 paras. 8-15)

F10 Words in reg. 19(9) substituted (3.4.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), regs. 1, 5(2)(g) (with Sch. 2 paras. 8-15)

F11 Reg. 19(10) inserted (3.4.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), regs. 1, 5(2)(h) (with Sch. 2 paras. 8-15)

Marginal Citations

M1 See sections 2, 4 and 24(2).

M2 See regulation 27.

M3 For cases where those sections do not apply, see S.I. 2008/794, regulation 7, amended by S.I. 2008/3051, 2010/840 and 2012/874, 913 and 919.