# The Social Security (Habitual Residence, Past Presence and Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, Regulation 15: Amendment of the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013


In the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013, after regulation 18 (absence from Great Britain to receive medical treatment) insert—
“Absence where His Majesty’s Government provides public information to advise British nationals to leave a country or territory or arranges the evacuation of British nationals from a country or territory
18A (1) Where C is temporarily absent from Great Britain, C is treated as present in Great Britain for the purposes of regulation 16(a) and (b) during the first 26 weeks of that absence, where—
(a) C was present in a country or territory outside Great Britain immediately before His Majesty’s Government—
(i) provided public information to advise British nationals to leave that country or territory, or
(ii) arranged the evacuation of British nationals from that country or territory;
(b) the Secretary of State is satisfied that it would be unreasonable to expect C to return, or have returned, to Great Britain; and
(c) C did not enter that country or territory when His Majesty’s Government’s public information was to advise British nationals to leave that country or territory.
(2) In this regulation, “temporarily absent” has the same meaning as in regulation 17(2).
Time limits on absences where the claimant is treated as being in Great Britain
18B Where a person is temporarily absent from Great Britain in the circumstances specified in regulation 17(1), 18(1) or 18A(1), the total period of an absence where C is treated as present in Great Britain will not exceed 26 weeks.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/884/regulation/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-habitual-residence-past-presence-and-temporary-absence-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-15
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