The Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2019

Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 249

Social Security

The Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2019

Made

13th February 2019

Coming into force

19th February 2019

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred by section 41(5)(a) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012(1), makes the following Order.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2019 and comes into force on 19th February 2019.

Extension of the In Work Pilot Scheme

2.  The In Work Pilot Scheme in Part 3 of the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme and Amendment Regulations 2015(2) is to continue to have effect until the end of the period of twelve months beginning with 19th February 2019.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Alok Sharma

Minister of State for Employment

Department for Work and Pensions

13th February 2019

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends the period for which the pilot scheme established under the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme and Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/89) (“the In Work Pilot Scheme Regulations”) has effect.

The In Work Pilot Scheme Regulations established the pilot scheme under section 41 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5) 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. 2013/376). Regulation 8 of the In Work Pilot Scheme Regulations provides for the pilot scheme to cease to have effect at the end of a period of three years unless the scheme continues to have effect by Order of the Secretary of State. Article 2 of the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/168) continued the effect of the pilot scheme for a further period of twelve months beginning on 19th February 2018.

Article 2 of this Order continues the effect of the pilot scheme for a further period of twelve months beginning on 19th February 2019.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument, as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

(1)

2012 c. 5.

(2)

S.I. 2015/89, amended by S.I. 2015/1754.