The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015

The carer element of universal credit and housing benefit

17.—(1) Schedule 3 (applicable amounts) to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 14 (severe disability premium)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (2)(a)(iii), after “section 70 of the Act” insert “or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element under regulation 29 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013”;

(b) in the closing words of sub-paragraph (2)(b)—

(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and

(ii) after “such an allowance” insert “or has such an award of universal credit”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (5)(b)—

(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and

(ii) after “be so entitled and in receipt” insert “or have such an award of universal credit”;

(d) in sub-paragraph (6), after “carer’s allowance” insert “or universal credit which includes the carer element”; and

(e) in sub-paragraph (7)—

(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or as having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and

(ii) after “that allowance” insert “or had such an award of universal credit”.

(3) In paragraph 20 (amounts of premiums specified in Part 3)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (6)(b)(i), after “carer’s allowance” insert “or who has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element under regulation 29 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (6)(b)(ii), after “such an allowance” insert “or such an award of universal credit”.

(1)

S.I. 2006/213; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2007/719, 2009/583 and 2010/1160.