# The Universal Credit Regulations 2013, Paragraph 7: Liability to make rent and other payments to a trust


(1) A claimant is to be treated as not liable to make rent payments where the liability to make them is owed to a trustee of a trust and the trustees or beneficiaries of the trust include—
(a) the claimant;
(b) if the claimant is a member of a couple, the other member;
(c) a child or qualifying young person for whom a person who falls within paragraph (a) or (b) is responsible; or
(d) a close relative of any of the above who lives in the accommodation with the claimant.
(2) A claimant who is treated under sub-paragraph (1) as not liable to make rent payments to the trustee of a trust is also to be treated as not liable to make service charge payments where the liability to make the service charge payments is to—
(a) a trustee of the same trust; or
(b) a trustee of another trust of which the trustees or beneficiaries include any of the persons listed in sub-paragraph (1)(a) to (d).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111531938/schedule/2/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-universal-credit-regulations-2013/schedule-2/paragraph-7
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