The Universal Credit Regulations 2013

Extended benefit unit of a renter for purposes of this Schedule U.K.

9.—(1) For the purposes of this Schedule, the members of a renter's extended benefit unit are—

(a) the renter (or joint renters);

(b) any child or qualifying young person for whom the renter or either joint renter is responsible; and

(c) any person who is a non-dependant.

(2) A person is a non-dependant if the person [F1 normally] lives in the accommodation with the renter (or joint renters) and is none of the following—

(a) a person within sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (b);

(b) where the renter is a member of a couple claiming as a single person, the other member of the couple;

(c) a foster child;

(d) a person who is liable to make payments on a commercial basis in respect of the person's occupation of the accommodation (whether to the renter, joint renters or another person);

(e) a person to whom the liability to make relevant payments is owed or a member of their household;

(f) a person who has already been treated as a non-dependant in relation to a claim for universal credit by another person liable to make relevant payments in respect of the accommodation occupied by the renter.

[F2 (g) a child or qualifying young person for whom no-one in the renter’s extended benefit unit is responsible.]

(3) “Foster child” means a child in relation to whom the renter (or either joint renter) is a foster parent.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in Sch. 4 para. 9(2) inserted (4.12.2013) by the Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2828), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)

F2 Sch. 4 para. 9(2)(g) inserted (4.12.2013) by the Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2828), regs. 1, 4(2)(b)