Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2 Universal credit: amendments

Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)

6 (1) Section 15A (payment out of benefit of sums in respect of mortgage interest) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) in paragraph (a), after “entitled, to“ there is inserted “universal credit,”;

(b) in paragraph (b), after “determining“ there is inserted “the maximum amount for the purposes of universal credit or”;

(c) in the words after paragraph (b), after “whose” there is inserted “maximum amount for the purposes of universal credit or”.

(3) In subsection (4)—

(a) in the definition of “qualifying associate”—

(i) before “falls” there is inserted “or universal credit”;

(ii) before “as responsible” there is inserted “or Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012”;

(b) in the definition of “relevant benefits”, before paragraph (a) there is inserted—

“(za) universal credit;”.