The Universal Credit Regulations 2013 No. 376

SCHEDULE 8 U.K. Circumstances in which a claimant is to be treated as having limited capability for work

Life threatening disease U.K.

5.  The claimant is suffering from a life threatening disease in relation to which— U.K.

(a) there is medical evidence that the disease is uncontrollable, or uncontrolled, by a recognised therapeutic procedure; and

(b) in the case of a disease that is uncontrolled, there is a reasonable cause for it not to be controlled by a recognised therapeutic procedure.