{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-universal-credit-regulations-2013/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-universal-credit-regulations-2013/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111531938",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-universal-credit-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Award to include LCW and LCWRA elements",
  "text": "(1) An award of universal credit is to include an amount—\n(a) in respect of the fact that a claimant has limited capability for work (“the LCW element”); or\n(b) in respect of the fact that a claimant has limited capability for work and work-related activity (“the LCWRA element”).\n(2) The amounts of those elements are given in the table in regulation 36.\n(3) Whether a claimant has limited capability for work or for work and work-related activity is determined in accordance with Part 5.\n(4) In the case of joint claimants, where each of them has limited capability for work or for work and work-related activity, the award is only to include one element and that is the LCWRA element if one of them has limited capability for work and work-related activity, but otherwise it is the LCW element.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111531938/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:50:55.239318+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."
}