The Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Moving home: adaptations to new home for disabled person N.I.

4.—(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where—

(a) the claimant has moved into accommodation (“the new accommodation”) and, immediately before the move, met the payment condition and liability condition in respect of the new accommodation, and

(b) there was a delay in moving in that it was necessary to enable the new accommodation to be adapted to meet the disablement needs of a person specified in sub-paragraph (3).

(2) The claimant is to be treated as occupying both the new accommodation and the accommodation from which the move was made (“the old accommodation”) if—

(a) immediately before the move, the claimant was entitled to the inclusion of the housing costs element in an award of universal credit in respect of the old accommodation, and

(b) the delay in moving into the new accommodation was reasonable.

(3) A person is specified in this sub-paragraph if the person is—

(a) a claimant or any child or qualifying young person for whom a claimant is responsible, and

(b) in receipt of—

(i) the care component of disability living allowance at the middle or highest rate,

[F1 (ia) the care component of child disability payment at the middle or highest rate in accordance with regulation 11(5) of the DACYP Regulations;]

(ii) attendance allowance, F2 ...

(iii) the daily living component of personal independence payment.

[F3 or

(iv) the daily living component of adult disability payment at the standard or enhanced rate]

(4) No claimant may be treated as occupying both the old accommodation and the new accommodation under this paragraph for more than one month.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 para. 4(3)(b)(ia) inserted (26.7.2021) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance for Children and Young People) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/786), art. 1(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(2)

F2 Word in Sch. 3 para. 4(3)(b)(ii) omitted (21.3.2022) by virtue of The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 28(7)(a)

F3 Sch. 3 para. 4(3)(b)(iv) and word inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 28(7)(b)