The Universal Credit Regulations 2013 No. 376

PART 4 U.K. ELEMENTS OF AN AWARD

Particular needs or circumstances - capability for work U.K.

Award to include LCW and LCWRA elements U.K.

27.—(1) An award of universal credit is to include an amount—

(a) in respect of the fact that a claimant has limited capability for work (“the LCW element”); or

(b) in respect of the fact that a claimant has limited capability for work and work-related activity (“the LCWRA element”).

(2) The amounts of those elements are given in the table in regulation 36.

(3) Whether a claimant has limited capability for work or for work and work-related activity is determined in accordance with Part 5.

(4) In the case of joint claimants, where each of them has limited capability for work or for work and work-related activity, the award is only to include one element and that is the LCWRA element if one of them has limited capability for work and work-related activity, but otherwise it is the LCW element.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Reg. 27(1)(a) modified (cond.) by S.I. 2014/1230 reg. 26(4)(a) (as inserted (13.10.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1626), regs. 1(2), 5(4)(b))

C2 Reg. 27(1)(b) modified (cond.) by S.I. 2014/1230 reg. 26(4)(b) (as inserted (13.10.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1626), regs. 1(2), 5(4)(b))

C3 Reg. 27(3) excluded (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/386), regs. 1(2), 23(3)(a)(5)(a)

C4 Reg. 27(3) excluded (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/386), regs. 1(2), 26(2)(a)(3)(a)

C5 Reg. 27(3) excluded (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/386), regs. 1(2), 27(2)(a)(4)(a)

C6 Reg. 27(3) excluded (16.6.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230), regs. 1(2), 24(4)

C7 Reg. 27(3) excluded (16.6.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230), regs. 1(2), 26(2)(a)

C8 Reg. 27(3) excluded (16.6.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230), regs. 1(2), 21(4)

C9 Reg. 27(3) excluded (16.6.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230), regs. 1(2), 21(2)

C10 Reg. 27(3) excluded (16.6.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230), regs. 1(2), 24(2)

C11 Reg. 27(3) excluded (16.6.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230), regs. 1(2), 26(3)(a)

C12 Reg. 27(3) excluded (16.6.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230), regs. 1(2), 23(3)

C13 Reg. 27(3) excluded (16.6.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230), regs. 1(2), 23(2)

C14 Reg. 27(3) excluded (16.6.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230), regs. 1(2), 19(2)(a)

C15 Reg. 27(3) excluded (16.6.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230), regs. 1(2), 19(4)(a)

C16 Reg. 27(3) excluded (cond.) by S.I. 2014/1230 reg. 23(1A) (as inserted (13.10.2014) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1626), regs. 1(2), 5(2)(c))