PART 2 PREVENTION OF DUAL PROVISION OF BENEFIT FOR CARE

CHAPTER 2

The carer element of universal credit and jobseeker’s allowance

15.—(1) Schedule 1 (applicable amounts) to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 15 (severe disability premium)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(c), after “Benefits Act” insert “or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (2)(d), after “Benefits Act”, in both places it occurs, insert “or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (5)(b)—

(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and

(ii) after “be so entitled and in receipt” insert “of carer’s allowance or have such an award of universal credit”;

(d) in sub-paragraph (7), after “carer’s allowance” insert “or universal credit which includes the carer element”;

(e) in sub-paragraph (9)—

(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or as having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and

(ii) after “that allowance” insert “or had such an award”; and

(f) after sub-paragraph (9) insert—

“(10) For the purposes of this paragraph, a person has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element if the person has an award of universal credit which includes an amount which is the carer element under regulation 29 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013.”.

(3) In paragraph 20I (severe disability premium – joint claim couples)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(d), after “Benefits Act”, in both places it occurs, insert “or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (4)(b)—

(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and

(ii) after “be so entitled and in receipt” insert “of carer’s allowance or have such an award of universal credit”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (6), after “carer’s allowance” insert “or universal credit which includes the carer element”;

(d) in sub-paragraph (7)—

(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or as having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and

(ii) after “that allowance” insert “or had such an award”; and

(e) after sub-paragraph (7) insert—

“(8) For the purposes of this paragraph, a person has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element if the person has an award of universal credit which includes an amount which is the carer element under regulation 29 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013.”.

(1)

S.I. 1996/207; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2000/681, 2002/490, 2003/511, 2007/719 and 2010/1160.