The Universal Credit (Coronavirus) (Self-employed Claimants and Reclaims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Amendment of the UC etc. Claims and Payments Regulations

3.  After regulation 31 (advance claim for and award of universal credit) of the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016(1) insert—

“Reclaims of universal credit after nil award due to earnings

31A.— (1) This regulation applies where—

(a) a claim is made for universal credit, but no award is made because the condition in Article 10(1)(b) or 10(2)(b) of the 2015 Order (condition that the claimant’s income, or joint claimants’ combined income is such that the amount payable would not be less than the prescribed minimum) is not met; or

(b) entitlement to an award of universal credit ceases because that condition is not met.

(2) The Department may, subject to any conditions the Department considers appropriate, treat the claimant (or joint claimants) as making a claim on the first day of each subsequent month, up to a maximum of 5, that would have been an assessment period if an award had been made or, as the case may be, if the award had continued.”.

(1)

S.R. 2016 No. 220.