{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013",
  "text": "(1) The Universal Credit Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 12 (additional room) of Schedule 4 (housing costs element for renters)—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (6) substitute—\n“(6) A renter satisfies the disabled child condition if they or another member of their extended benefit unit are responsible for a child who would (but for the provisions of this paragraph) be expected to share a bedroom and that child is—\n(a) in receipt of—\n(i) the care component of disability living allowance at the middle or highest rate; or\n(ii) the care component of child disability payment at the middle or highest rate in accordance with regulation 11(5) of the DACYP Regulations; and\n(b) by virtue of their disability, not reasonably able to share a room with another child.”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (6A)(a)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (ii) omit “at the higher rate”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (iia) omit “at the higher rate in accordance with regulation 6 of the Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/376, amended by S.I. 2013/2828, 2017/213, 2021/786, 2024/919; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/3/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:22:01.519672+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."
}