SCHEDULE 1 Universal Credit: Supplementary Regulation-Making Powers
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (2012 c 5) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 1 Universal Credit: Supplementary Regulation-Making Powers

Section 30

Entitlement of joint claimants

1

Regulations may provide for circumstances in which joint claimants may be entitled to universal credit without each of them meeting all the basic conditions referred to in section 4.

Linking periods

2

Regulations may provide for periods of entitlement to universal credit which are separated by no more than a prescribed number of days to be treated as a single period.

Couples

3

(1)     Regulations may provide—

(a)     for a claim made by members of a couple jointly to be treated as a claim made by one member of the couple as a single person (or as claims made by both members as single persons);

(b)     for claims made by members of a couple as single persons to be treated as a claim made jointly by the couple.

(2)     Regulations may provide—

(a)     where an award is made to joint claimants who cease to be entitled to universal credit as such by ceasing to be a couple, for the making of an award (without a claim) to either or each one of them—

(i)

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