The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015

The carer element of universal credit and housing benefit

18.—(1) Schedule 3 (applicable amounts) to the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 6 (severe disability premium)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (2)(a)(iii), after “carer’s allowance” insert “under section 70 of the Act 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 that includes the carer element”; and

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

(c) in sub-paragraph (7)(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 (8)(a), after “carer’s allowance” insert “or an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and

(e) in sub-paragraph (8)(b)—

(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 12 (amount of premiums specified in Part 3)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(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 (1)(b)(ii), after “such an allowance” insert “or such an award of universal credit”.

(1)

S.I. 2006/214; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2007/719 and 2010/1160.