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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-childcare-payments-eligibility-regulations-2015/regulation-18",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111127063",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-childcare-payments-eligibility-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Disqualifying tax credit and universal credit claimants from obtaining top-up payments: change of circumstances",
  "text": "(1) The following are to be regarded as changes of circumstances in relation to a person for the purposes of sections 32 and 33 (power to disqualify tax credit or universal credit claimants from obtaining top-up payments)—\n(a) a person no longer meets the conditions of eligibility in sections 7 to 9, or a person’s partner no longer meets the condition in section 9;\n(b) the composition of a person’s household changes, including where—\n(i) a person’s partner joins the person’s household or the person joins the partner’s household;\n(ii) a person or a person’s partner takes responsibility for another child or qualifying young person;\n(iii) a person’s partner or a child leaves the household; or\n(iv) a person’s partner or child dies;\n(c) a person or the person’s partner is absent from the household for at least one month;\n(d) a person’s child or the person’s partner’s child is awarded, or ceases to be entitled to, disability living allowance, personal independence payment or armed forces independence payment;\n(e) the principal employment of a person or a person’s partner changes;\n(f) the employment status of a person or a person’s partner changes;\n(g) a person becomes liable to pay HMRC an amount under section 35(2), 36(2), 37(2) or 38(3) (recovery of top-up payment where award of tax credit or universal credit made on review, revision or appeal); or\n(h) any other change entitles a person or a person’s partner to make a claim that results in either—\n(i) a first award of a tax credit; or\n(ii) a first award of universal credit.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b)(ii)—\n(a) in a case within section 32—\n(i) a person takes responsibility for a child or qualifying young person where the person takes such responsibility in accordance with the rules in regulation 3 of the Child Tax Credit Regulations 2002; and\n(ii) “qualifying young person” has the meaning given in regulations 2 and 5(3) and (4) of those Regulations;\n(b) in a case within section 33—\n(i) a person takes responsibility for a child or qualifying young person where the person takes such responsibility as determined by regulations 4 and 4A of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013; and\n(ii) “qualifying young person” has the meaning given in regulation 5 of those Regulations;\n(c) “child” means a person under the age of 16.\n(3) In paragraph (1)(b)(iii) and (iv) and (1)(d) “child” means a qualifying child for the purposes of the Act.\n(4) In paragraph (1)(e), a person’s “principal employment” is the employment in which the greater part of the person’s working time is spent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/2007. Regulation 3 was amended by S.I. 2004/762, 2005/2919, 2006/1163, 2007/2151, 2008/1879, 2008/2169, 2009/697, 2011/1740, 2012/848 and 2013/1465."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/376. Regulation 4 was amended, and regulation 4A was added, by S.I. 2013/1508."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111127063/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:10:46.477340+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}