{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2020/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2020/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/618",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013",
  "text": "(1) The Universal Credit Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 68 (person treated as having student income)—\n(a) in paragraphs (1) and (2), omit “master’s degree”;\n(b) in paragraph (5), omit “master’s degree”, both times it occurs;\n(c) in paragraph (7), for the definition of “postgraduate master’s degree loan” substitute—\n““postgraduate loan” means a loan to a student undertaking a postgraduate master’s degree course or a postgraduate doctoral degree course pursuant to regulations made under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998;”.\n(3) In regulation 69 (calculation of student income – student loans and postgraduate master’s degree loans)—\n(a) in the heading (and its entry in the table of contents), omit “master’s degree”;\n(b) in paragraph (1A), omit “master’s degree”, both times it occurs;\n(c) in paragraph (2), omit “master’s degree”.\n(4) In paragraphs (aa) and (b) of Step 1 in regulation 71 (calculation of student income – amount for an assessment period), omit “master’s degree”.\n(5) In regulation 76 (special schemes for compensation etc)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a)—\n(i) at the end of paragraph (v), omit “or”;\n(ii) after paragraph (v) insert—\n“(vi) the fire at Grenfell Tower on 14th June 2017; or”;\n(b) after paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) This regulation also applies where a person receives a payment from—\n(a) the National Emergencies Trust, registered charity number 1182809;\n(b) the Child Migrants Trust, registered charity number 1171479, under the scheme for former British child migrants; or\n(c) the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea or a registered charity where the payment is made because that person was affected by the fire at Grenfell Tower on 14th June 2017 or is a personal representative of such a person.”.\n(6) In paragraphs (4)(a) and (5) of regulation 89 (claimants subject to no work-related requirements), omit “master’s degree”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/376; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2013/630, 2016/743 and 2017/689."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/618/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:16.568328+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."
}