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123 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation and commencement
s.002
Interpretation
s.003
Couples
s.004
When a person is responsible for a child or qualifying young person
s.005
Responsibility for children looked after by an authority
s.006
Meaning of “qualifying young person”
s.007
Rounding
s.008
Cases where the minimum age is 16
s.009
Persons treated as not being in Northern Ireland
s.010
Crown servants and members of Her Majesty's forces posted overseas
s.011
Temporary absence from Northern Ireland
s.012
Meaning of “receiving education”
s.013
Meaning of “undertaking a course”
s.014
Exceptions to the requirement not to be receiving education
s.015
Claimant commitment – date and method of acceptance
s.016
Claimant commitment – exceptions
s.017
Minimum amount
s.018
Capital limit
s.019
Restrictions on entitlement – prisoners etc.
s.020
Waiting days
s.021
Awards
s.022
Assessment periods
s.022
Assessment period cycle to remain the same following change in the first date of entitlement
s.023
Deduction of income and work allowance
s.024
Apportionment where re-claim is delayed after loss of employment
s.025
The child element
s.025
Availability of the child element where maximum exceeded
s.025
Order of children and qualifying young persons
s.026
The housing costs element
s.027
Amount of the housing costs element – renters and owner-occupiers
s.028
Award to include LCWRA element
s.028
Meaning of “pre-2026 claimant”
s.029
Period for which the ... LCWRA element is not to be included
s.030
Award to include the carer element
s.031
Meaning of “regular and substantial caring responsibilities for a severely disabled person”
s.032
Award to include childcare costs element
s.033
The work condition
s.034
The childcare costs condition
s.035
Amount of childcare costs element
s.036
Charges attributable to an assessment period
s.037
Meaning of “relevant childcare”
s.038
Amounts of elements
s.039
Run-on after a death
s.040
Limited capability for work
s.041
Limited capability for work and work-related activity
s.041
Severe conditions criteria claimant
s.042
When an assessment may be carried out
s.043
Assessment - supplementary
s.044
Information requirement
s.045
Medical examinations
s.046
What is included in capital?
s.047
Jointly held capital
s.048
Capital disregarded
s.049
Valuation of capital
s.050
Notional capital
s.051
Meaning of “earned income”
s.052
Meaning of other terms relating to earned income
s.053
Calculation of earned income – general principles
s.054
Surplus earnings
s.054
Transitional provision – temporary de minimis period
s.055
Employed earnings
s.056
Employee involved in trade dispute
s.057
Self-employed earnings — treatment of losses
s.058
Unused losses
s.059
Permitted expenses
s.060
Flat rate deductions for mileage and use of home and adjustment for personal use of business premises
s.061
Notional earned income
s.062
Information for calculating earned income – real time information etc.
s.063
Minimum income floor
s.064
Start-up period
s.065
Meaning of “gainful self-employment”
s.066
What is included in unearned income?
s.067
Meaning of “retirement pension income”
s.068
Person treated as having student income
s.069
Calculation of student income - student loans and postgraduate loans
s.070
Calculation of student income - grants
s.071
Calculation of student income – amount for an assessment period
s.072
Assumed yield from capital
s.073
Unearned income calculated monthly
s.074
Notional unearned income
s.075
Compensation for personal injury
s.076
Special schemes for compensation etc.
s.077
Company analogous to a partnership or one person business
s.078
Definition of Couple
s.079
Circumstances where the benefit cap applies
s.080
Manner of determining total entitlement to welfare benefits
s.080
Relevant amount
s.081
Reduction of universal credit
s.082
Exceptions - earnings
s.083
Exceptions - entitlement or receipt of certain benefits
s.084
Definition of carer
s.085
Nomination of responsible carer and responsible foster parent
s.086
References to paid work
s.087
Expected hours
s.088
Claimants subject to no work-related requirements
s.089
Claimants subject to no work-related requirements - the earnings thresholds
s.090
Claimants subject to work-focused interview requirement only
s.091
Purposes of a work-focused interview
s.092
Work search requirement - interviews
s.093
Work search requirement - all reasonable action
s.094
Work availability requirement - able and willing immediately to take up paid work
s.095
Work search requirement and work availability requirement - limitations
s.096
Victims of domestic violence
s.097
Circumstances in which requirements must not be imposed
s.097
Interpretation
s.098
General principles for calculating reduction periods
s.099
Higher-level sanctions
s.100
Medium-level sanction
s.101
Low-level sanction
s.102
Lowest-level sanction
s.103
Start of the reduction
s.104
Reduction period to continue where award terminates
s.105
Suspension of a reduction where fraud penalty applies
s.106
When a reduction is to be terminated
s.107
Amount of reduction for each assessment period
s.108
Daily reduction rate
s.109
Application of ESA or JSA sanctions to universal credit
s.110
Failures for which no reduction is applied
s.111
Conditions for hardship payments
s.112
The period of hardship payments
s.113
The amount of hardship payments
s.114
Recoverability of hardship payments
s.115
Transitional Provision
Schedules
Schedules
0 of 133 shown133 other schedules
s.sch001
Interpretation
s.sch001
Rent Payments
s.sch001
Payments excluded from being rent payments
s.sch001
Specified accommodation
s.sch001
Temporary Accommodation
s.sch001
Owner-occupier payments
s.sch001
Meaning of “loan interest payments”
s.sch001
Meaning of “alternative finance payments”
s.sch001
Service charge payments
s.sch001
Additional conditions: social rented sector renters and owner-occupiers
s.sch002
Certain other persons liable to make payments
s.sch002
Contrived liability
s.sch002
Failure to pay by the person who is liable
s.sch002
Payments waived in return for repair work
s.sch002
Rent free periods
s.sch002
Liability to make rent and other payments to close relative
s.sch002
Liability to make rent and other payments to company
s.sch002
Liability to make rent and other payments to a trust
s.sch002
Liability to make owner-occupier and other payments to member of same household
s.sch002
Arrears of payments
s.sch003
The occupation condition: the general rule
s.sch003
Claimant living in other accommodation during essential repairs
s.sch003
Claimant housed in two dwellings by provider of social housing
s.sch003
Moving home: adaptations to new home for disabled person
s.sch003
Claimant living in other accommodation because of reasonable fear of violence
s.sch003
Moving in delayed by adaptations to accommodation to meet disablement needs
s.sch003
Moving into accommodation following stay in hospital or care home
s.sch003
Periods of temporary absence exceeding 6 months
s.sch004
Definition of renter
s.sch004
Temporary absence of member of renter's extended benefit unit
s.sch004
Additional room
s.sch004
Housing cost contributions
s.sch004
Amount of housing cost contributions
s.sch004
Exempt renters
s.sch004
No deduction for housing cost contributions in respect of certain non-dependants
s.sch004
Single calculation for renter treated as occupying single accommodation
s.sch004
Calculation where move to new accommodation delayed for adaptations for disabled person
s.sch004
Calculation where renter moves out because of reasonable fear of violence
s.sch004
Application of Part 4
s.sch004
Interpretation
s.sch004
Meaning of “temporary accommodation”
s.sch004
The amount of housing costs element under this Part
s.sch004
Core rent
s.sch004
Core rent for joint tenants
s.sch004
Cap rent
s.sch004
Four bedroom limit
s.sch004
Specified renters entitled to shared accommodation only
s.sch004
Meaning of “specified renters”
s.sch004
Renters excepted from shared accommodation
s.sch004
Application of Part 5
s.sch004
“Relevant payments” for purposes of this Schedule
s.sch004
Deduction from relevant payments of amounts relating to use of particular accommodation
s.sch004
Relevant payments excessive
s.sch004
The amount of housing costs element
s.sch004
Determining the amount from which HCC deductions are to be made
s.sch004
Determining the amount from which HCC deductions are to be made: joint tenants
s.sch004
Under-occupancy deduction
s.sch004
No housing costs element for 16 or 17 year old care leavers
s.sch004
No housing costs element for certain renters aged at least 18 but under 22
s.sch004
Persons to whom paragraph 4A does not apply - general
s.sch004
Persons to whom paragraph 4A does not apply – periods of work
s.sch004
Relevant payments to be taken into account
s.sch004
Relevant payments calculated monthly
s.sch004
Size criteria applicable to the extended benefit unit of all renters
s.sch004
Extended benefit unit of a renter for purposes of this Schedule
s.sch004
Number of bedrooms to which a renter is entitled
s.sch005
Definition of Owner-occupier
s.sch005
Amount in respect of interest on loans
s.sch005
Amount in respect of alternative finance arrangements
s.sch005
Standard rate to be applied under paragraphs 10 and 11
s.sch005
Amount in respect of service charge payments
s.sch005
Interpretation
s.sch005
Relevant payment for the purposes of this schedule
s.sch005
No housing costs element where owner-occupier has any earned income
s.sch005
No housing costs element under this Schedule for qualifying period
s.sch005
Application of paragraph 5: receipt of JSA and ESA
s.sch005
Application of paragraph 5: joint owner-occupiers ceasing to be a couple
s.sch005
Payments to be taken into account
s.sch005
The amount of a housing costs element
s.sch005a
Further circumstances in which a claimant with limited capability for work and work-related activity is a “pre-2026 claimant” for the purposes of regulation 28
s.sch005a
Claimant is awaiting first assessment under Part 5 before 6th April 2026
s.sch005a
Claimant with limited capability for work is awaiting reassessment under Part 5 before 6th April 2026
s.sch005a
Claimant with limited capability for work and work-related activity whose award does not include the LCWRA element on 6th April 2026
s.sch005a
Claimant entitled to an employment and support allowance before 6th April 2026
s.sch008
The claimant is receiving— (a) regular weekly treatment by way...
s.sch008
(1) The claimant is— (a) undergoing medical or other treatment...
s.sch008
(1) The claimant— (a) is excluded or abstains from work...
s.sch008
(1) The claimant is suffering from a specific illness, disease...
s.sch008
The claimant is suffering from a life threatening disease in...
s.sch008
The claimant has reached the qualifying age for state pension...
s.sch009
The claimant is terminally ill.
s.sch009
The claimant is a pregnant woman and there is a...
s.sch009
The claimant is— (a) receiving treatment for cancer by way...
s.sch009
The claimant is suffering from a specific illness, disease or...
s.sch009
The claimant has reached the qualifying age for state pension...
s.sch010
(1) Premises or land occupied by a person as their...
s.sch010
(1) The value of any right to receive a pension...
s.sch010
(1) The value of a funeral plan contract.
s.sch010
An amount deposited with a housing association as a condition...
s.sch010
(1) An amount received within the past 6 months which...
s.sch010
An amount received under an insurance policy within the past...
s.sch010
An amount received within the past 6 months that is...
s.sch010
Any payment made within the last 12 months under Part...
s.sch010
(1) A payment made within the past 12 months by...
s.sch010
(1) A payment received within the past 12 months by...
s.sch010
A payment received within the past 12 months by way...
s.sch010
A payment made within the past 12 months of widowed...
s.sch010
A payment to the person made by the Department as...
s.sch010
A payment to a person by virtue of being a...
s.sch010
Premises or land occupied by a close relative of a...
s.sch010
(1) A payment made within the past 12 months of...
s.sch010
An ex-gratia payment made by the Secretary of State for...
s.sch010
A payment made under Article 10 of the Victims and...
s.sch010
Any early years assistance given within the past 12 months...
s.sch010
Any funeral expense assistance given within the past 12 months...
s.sch010
Any assistance given within the past 12 months in accordance...
s.sch010
Any winter heating assistance given within the past 12 months...
s.sch010
Premises or land occupied by a person's former partner as...
s.sch010
(1) Premises or land that a person intends to occupy...
s.sch010
Premises or land that a person has ceased to occupy...
s.sch010
Premises or land that a person is taking reasonable steps...
s.sch010
Assets which are used wholly or mainly for the purposes...
s.sch010
Assets which were used wholly or mainly for a trade,...
s.sch010
The value of any policy of life insurance.
s.sch011
Moving an ESA sanction to UC
s.sch011
Moving a JSA sanction to UC
s.sch011
Effect of ESA or JSA sanction on escalation of UC sanction
s.sch012
Introduction
s.sch012
Multiple births
s.sch012
Adoptions
s.sch012
Non-parental caring arrangements
s.sch012
Non-consensual conception
s.sch012
Continuation of existing exception in a subsequent award
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