The Universal Credit (Persons Required to Provide Information, Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Saving and Transitional Provision

10.—(1) The amendments made by regulations 3, 6(2)(c), (18) and (19)(a)(i)(bb) and (ii) and (b) to (g), 9(2), (3) (in so far as it relates to temporary accommodation), (4), (5), (6)(c) and (9)(b) do not apply to an award of universal credit that exists on 7th May 2018 and that then includes the housing costs element in respect of temporary accommodation, until—

(a) there is a change in the amount of rent payments or service charge payments that the claimant is liable to make (with respect to any accommodation); or

(b) the award ceases to include the housing costs element,

whichever occurs first.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—

(a) “housing costs element” means the amount to be included in a claimant’s award of universal credit under Article 16 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015;

(b) “rent payments” has the meaning in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016;

(c) “service charge payments” has the meaning in paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to those Regulations(1);

(d) “temporary accommodation” means accommodation which falls within Case 1 or Case 2 under paragraph 4A of Schedule 1 to those Regulations(2).

(1)

Paragraph 8 was amended by paragraph 5(e)(ii) of Schedule 5 to S.R. 2017 No. 176.

(2)

Paragraph 4A is inserted into Schedule 1 of S.R. 2016 No. 216 by regulation 6(17) of these Regulations and comes in force on 11th April 2018 under regulation 1(2).