Amendment of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013

5.—(1) The Universal Credit Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 12 (additional room) of Schedule 4 (housing costs element for renters)—

(a) for sub-paragraph (6) substitute—

“(6) A renter satisfies the disabled child condition if they or another member of their extended benefit unit are responsible for a child who would (but for the provisions of this paragraph) be expected to share a bedroom and that child is—

(a) in receipt of—

(i) the care component of disability living allowance at the middle or highest rate; or

(ii) the care component of child disability payment at the middle or highest rate in accordance with regulation 11(5) of the DACYP Regulations; and

(b) by virtue of their disability, not reasonably able to share a room with another child.”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (6A)(a)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (ii) omit “at the higher rate”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (iia) omit “at the higher rate in accordance with regulation 6 of the Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024”.

(1)

S.I. 2013/376, amended by S.I. 2013/2828, 2017/213, 2021/786, 2024/919; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.