The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014

Termination of awards of certain existing benefits: other claimants U.K.

8.—(1) This regulation applies where—

(a) a claim for universal credit (other than a claim which is treated, in accordance with regulation 9(8) of the Claims and Payments Regulations, as having been made) is made [F1 , whether or not subsequently withdrawn]; F2 ...

F2 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) [F3 Where] this regulation applies, all awards of F4 ...a tax credit to which the claimant (or, in the case of joint claimants, either of them) is entitled on the date on which the claim is made are to terminate, by virtue of this regulation—

(a) on the day before the first date on which the claimant is entitled to universal credit in connection with the claim; or

(b) if the claimant is not entitled to universal credit, on the day before the first date on which he or she would have been so entitled, if all of the basic and financial conditions applicable to the claimant had been met.

[F5 (2A) Subject to paragraph (3), where this regulation applies, an award of [F6 income support or] housing benefit to which the claimant is entitled on the day mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) or (b) terminates on the last day of the period of two weeks beginning with the day after that day (whether or not the person is also entitled to an award of F7 ... a tax credit).]

[F8 (2B) This regulation does not apply in the case of a single claimant who has reached the qualifying age for state pension credit or in the case of joint claimants who have both reached the qualifying age for state pension credit.]

(3) An award of housing benefit to which a claimant is entitled in respect of [F9 specified accommodation] [F10 or temporary accommodation] does not terminate by virtue of this regulation.

(4) Where this regulation applies and the claimant (or, in the case of joint claimants, either of them) is treated by regulation 11 as being entitled to a tax credit—

(a) the claimant (or, as the case may be, the relevant claimant) is to be treated, for the purposes of the 2002 Act and this regulation, as having made a claim for the tax credit in question for the current tax year; and

(b) if the claimant (or the relevant claimant) is entitled on the date on which the claim for universal credit was made to an award of a tax credit which is made in respect of a claim which is treated as having been made by virtue of sub-paragraph (a), that award is to terminate, by virtue of this regulation—

(i) on the day before the first date on which the claimant is entitled to universal credit; or

(ii) if the claimant is not entitled to universal credit, on the day before the first date on which he or she would have been so entitled, if all of the basic and financial conditions applicable to the claimant had been met.

(5) Where an award terminates by virtue of this regulation, any legislative provision under which the award terminates on a later date does not apply.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 8(1)(a) inserted (25.7.2022) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/752), regs. 1(1), 5(3)(a)

F2 Reg. 8(1)(b) and word omitted (25.7.2022) by virtue of The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/752), regs. 1(1), 5(3)(b)

F3 Word in reg. 8(2) substituted (11.4.2018) by The Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments, Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/65), regs. 1(4), 6(7)(a)(i)

F4 Words in reg. 8(2) omitted (22.7.2020) by virtue of The Universal Credit (Managed Migration Pilot and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1152), regs. 1(3), 4(3)(a)

F5 Reg. 8(2A) inserted (11.4.2018) by The Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments, Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/65), regs. 1(4), 6(7)(b)

F6 Words in reg. 8(2A) inserted (22.7.2020) by The Universal Credit (Managed Migration Pilot and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1152), regs. 1(3), 4(3)(b)

F7 Words in reg. 8(2A) omitted (22.7.2020) by virtue of The Universal Credit (Managed Migration Pilot and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1152), regs. 1(3), 4(3)(b)

F8 Reg. 8(2B) inserted (25.7.2022) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/752), regs. 1(1), 5(3)(c)

F9 Words in reg. 8(3) substituted (3.11.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1626), reg. 1(2), 3(2)(d)

F10 Words in reg. 8(3) inserted (11.4.2018) by The Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments, Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/65), regs. 1(4), 6(7)(c) (with reg. 8(2)(3))