The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2014/1230 |
| Year | 2014 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014.(2) These Regulations come into force on 16th June 2014.(1) In these Regulations—
- “the 2002 Act” means the Tax Credits Act 2002 ;
- “the 2007 Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2007 ;
- “the Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2012;
- F156“the 2006 (SPC) Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006;
- “assessment period” has the same meaning as in the Universal Credit Regulations ;
- F136“childcare costs element” has the meaning in the Universal Credit Regulations;
- “the Claims and Payments Regulations” means the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 ;
- “contributory employment and support allowance” means a contributory allowance under Part 1 of the 2007 Act as that Part has effect apart from the amendments made by Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the Act that remove references to an income-related allowance;
- F136“deadline day” has the meaning in regulation 44;
- F156“the Decisions and Appeals Regulations” means the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2013;
- F136“earned income” has the meaning in Chapter 2 of Part 6 of the Universal Credit Regulations; ...
- “existing benefit” means income-based jobseeker's allowance, income-related employment and support allowance, income support, housing benefit and child tax credit and working tax credit under the 2002 Act, but see also F137paragraph (3) and regulation 25(2) ;
- F136“final deadline” has the meaning in regulation 46;
- “First-tier Tribunal” has the same meaning as in the Social Security Act 1998 ;
- F136“HMRC” means Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs;
- “housing benefit” means housing benefit under section 130 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 ;
- “income-based jobseeker's allowance” has the same meaning as in the Jobseekers Act 1995 ;
- “income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the 2007 Act ;
- “income support” means income support under section 124 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;
- F136“indicative UC amount” has the meaning in regulation 54;
- “joint-claim jobseeker's allowance” means old style JSA, entitlement to which arises by virtue of section 1(2B) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 ;
- F136“migration day” has the meaning in regulation 49;
- F136“migration notice” has the meaning in regulation 44;
- “new claimant partner” has the meaning given in regulation 7;
- “new style ESA” means an allowance under Part 1 of the 2007 Act as amended by the amendments made by Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the Act that remove references to an income-related allowance;
- “new style JSA” means an allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995 as amended by the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the Act that remove references to an income-based allowance;
- F136“notified person” has the meaning in regulation 44;
- “old style ESA” means an employment and support allowance under Part 1 of the 2007 Act as that Part has effect apart from the amendments made by Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the Act that remove references to an income-related allowance;
- “old style JSA” means a jobseeker's allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995 as that Act has effect apart from the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the Act that remove references to an income-based allowance;
- “partner” in relation to a person (“A”) means a person who forms part of a couple with A ;
- F156“qualifying age for state pension credit” has the meaning given by section 1(6) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002;
- F136“qualifying claim” has the meaning in regulation 48;
- F111“qualifying young person” has the same meaning as in the Universal Credit Regulations, but see also regulation 28;
- F131“severe disability premium” means the premium in relation to an employment and support allowance under paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 or, as the case may be, the corresponding premium in relation to income support, old style JSA or housing benefit;
- F85“specified accommodation” means accommodation to which one or more of sub-paragraphs (2) to (5) of paragraph 3A of Schedule 1 to the Universal Credit Regulations applies;
- F156“state pension credit” means state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act 2002;
- “tax credit” (including “child tax credit” and “working tax credit”) , “tax credits” and “tax year” have the same meanings as in the 2002 Act ;
- F123“temporary accommodation” means accommodation which falls within Case 1 or Case 2 under paragraph 3B of Schedule 1 to the Universal Credit Regulations;
- F136“total legacy amount” has the meaning in regulation 53;
- F136“transitional capital disregard” has the meaning in regulation 51;
- F136“transitional element” has the meaning in regulation 52;
- “the Universal Credit Regulations” means the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 ;
- “Upper Tribunal” has the same meaning as in the Social Security Act 1998.
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