Saving for claimants entitled to housing benefit or with an award that includes the housing costs element

4.—(1) These Regulations do not apply to an award of universal credit if, immediately before the first day on which they would otherwise apply, the claimant was entitled to—

(a) an award of universal credit that included the housing costs element; or

(b) an award of housing benefit under section 130 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1).

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to an award with effect from the day after the day on which it ceases to include the housing costs element.

(3) In this regulation, “housing costs element” has the meaning in regulation 25 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 (the housing costs element).

(1)

1992 c.4. Section 130 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 9 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c.14), Part VI of Schedule 19 to the Housing Act 1996 (c.52), section 96 of the Local Government Act 2000 (c.22) and section 30 of, and paragraph 1(1) and (3) of Schedule 5, and Schedule 8 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c.5).