Amendment of the amount of childcare costs element
6.—(1) The Universal Credit Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 34(1)(a) (amount of childcare costs element)(1), as it has effect both as amended by and apart from the amendment made by regulation 2(3) of the Universal Credit (Digital Service) Amendment Regulations 2014(2), for “70%” substitute “85%”.
(3) In regulation 36 (table showing amounts of elements), in the table—
(a)in the row under “Childcare costs element” showing the maximum amount for one child, for “£532.29” substitute “£646.35”; and
(b)in the row under “Childcare costs element” showing the maximum amount for two or more children, for “£912.50” substitute “£1,108.04”.
Regulation 34(1) was amended by S.I. 2014/2887, subject to a saving provision which ensured that the amendment only applied to awards of universal credit administered on the DWP digital service system. The original version of Regulation 34(1) continued to apply to all other awards of universal credit.