{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-act-2025/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-act-2025/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/22",
  "legislation_title": "Universal Credit Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-act-2025",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "LCWRA element for tax year 2026-27",
  "text": "(1) In the table in regulation 36 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 (amounts of elements)—\n(a) before the row showing the amount for limited capability for work and work-related activity (“the existing row”) insert—\n“\nclaimant with limited capability for work and work-related activity, other than a pre-2026 claimant, a severe conditions criteria claimant or a claimant who is terminally ill\n£217.26\n”;\n(b) in the existing row, for “limited capability for work and work-related activity” substitute “pre-2026 claimant, severe conditions criteria claimant or claimant who is terminally ill”.\n(2) Schedule 1 makes further amendments to the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 in connection with the amendments made by subsection (1).\n(3) This section and Schedule 1 come into force on 6 April 2026 and have effect in relation to assessment periods commencing on or after that date, and for this purpose “assessment period” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 6.4.2026, see s. 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/22/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:47.778325+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."
}