The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 No. 1230

PART 2 U.K. TRANSITION TO UNIVERSAL CREDIT

CHAPTER 3 U.K. EFFECT OF TRANSITION TO UNIVERSAL CREDIT

Meaning of “qualifying young person” U.K.

28.  Where a person who would (apart from the provision made by this regulation) be a “qualifying young person” within the meaning of regulation 5 of the Universal Credit Regulations is entitled to an existing benefit—

(a) that person is not a qualifying young person for the purposes of the Universal Credit Regulations; and

(b) regulation 5(5) of those Regulations applies as if, after “a person who is receiving” there were inserted “ an existing benefit (within the meaning of the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014), ”.