{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-and-miscellaneous-amendments-no2-regulations-2014/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-and-miscellaneous-amendments-no2-regulations-2014/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2888",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-and-miscellaneous-amendments-no2-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Universal Credit - deductions from benefit and direct payments",
  "text": "(1) The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) In Schedule 6 (deductions from benefit and direct payment to third parties)—\n(a) in paragraph 4(4) (maximum amount)—\n(i) omit “paragraph 7 (rent and service charges included in rent) or”, and\n(ii) after “(fuel costs)”, insert “, or the minimum amount which may be deducted under paragraph 7 (rent and service charges included in rent)”;\n(b) in paragraph 5(2) (priority as between certain debts)—\n(i) in paragraph (b) after “Schedule”, insert “where the amount of the deduction equals 10% of the standard allowance”;\n(ii) after paragraph (p) insert—\n“(pa) paragraph 7 (rent and service charges included in rent) where the amount of deduction exceeds the minimum amount that may be deducted under that paragraph;”;\n(c) in paragraph 7(5) (rent and service charges included in rent) for the words “equal to 5%”, substitute “which is no less than 10% and no more than 20%”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2888/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:58:07.946912+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."
}