The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) and Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Amendment Order 2021

Amendment of the Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Order 2001 and effect of amendments

8.—(1) The Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Order 2001(1) is amended as follows.

(2) The amendments made by this article have effect in respect of any year(2) commencing on or after 1st April 2021.

(3) Article 2 (determining the amount of grant) is renumbered as article 2(1) and—

(a) in the renumbered article 2(1), in sub-paragraph (a)—

(i) omit “and council tax benefit”; and

(ii) at the end insert “and relevant awards of universal credit”;

(b) after the renumbered article 2(1) insert—

“(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), a “relevant award of universal credit” means an award of universal credit, the calculation of which includes an amount under section 11 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012(3), calculated in accordance with Schedule 4 to the Universal Credit Regulations 2013(4), or would include such an amount but for paragraph 3(h) or (i) of Schedule 1 to those Regulations.”.

(4) In article 3 (claims)—

(a) in paragraph (2)—

(i) omit sub-paragraphs (a) to (d);

(ii) for sub-paragraph (e), substitute—

“(e) by 31st October in a relevant year—

(i) showing the amount of payments it has made from 1st April to 30th September of that relevant year; and

(ii) estimating the total amount of payments it believes it will make between 1st April and 31st March of that relevant year.”;

(b) in paragraph (3), omit sub-paragraph (b).

(5) For article 6 (payment), substitute—

“6.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2) and article 6A, the Secretary of State may make payments by way of instalments by reference to claims submitted in accordance with article 3 but no final payment shall be made until the Secretary of State is satisfied that no request for information in accordance with article 4 is outstanding.

(2) An initial instalment payment for the relevant year may be made without reference to any claim submitted in accordance with article 3.”

(1)

S.I. 2001/2340. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2008/1167 and 2014/1667.

(2)

See section 70(8) of the 2000 Act for the definition of “year”.

(3)

2012 c. 5.

(4)

S.I. 2013/376. Paragraph 3(h) is inserted by S.I. 2014/771 and paragraph 3(i) is inserted by S.I. 2018/65.