{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-payments-on-account-of-benefit-regulations-2013/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-payments-on-account-of-benefit-regulations-2013/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/383",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Payments on Account of Benefit) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-payments-on-account-of-benefit-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Conditions for payment of budgeting advances",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may make a budgeting advance to B for the purpose of defraying an intermittent expense of B if—\n(a) B makes an application to the Secretary of State for a budgeting advance;\n(b) B, or in a case where B is a member of a couple, B or their partner, is in receipt of universal credit;\n(c) except where paragraph (2) applies, B or, in a case where B is a member of a couple, B or their partner, has been in receipt of benefit for a continuous period of at least 6 months on the date of the application for a budgeting advance;\n(d) the earnings condition in regulation 13 is satisfied; and\n(e) the recovery condition in regulation 14 is satisfied.\n(2) This paragraph applies where the intermittent expense to be defrayed is necessarily related to B or, in a case where B is a member of a couple, their partner, obtaining or retaining employment.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), “benefit” means—\n(a) universal credit;\n(b) employment and support allowance;\n(c) income support;\n(d) jobseeker's allowance; or\n(e) state pension credit.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)—\n(a) “employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the 2007 Act as it has effect apart from the amendments made by Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the 2012 Act (to remove references to an income-related allowance);\n(b) “jobseeker's allowance” means an income-based jobseeker's allowance under the 1995 Act as it has effect apart from the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the 2012 Act (to remove references to an income-based allowance).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/383/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:33.576106+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."
}