{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2015/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2015/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1754",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "The carer element of universal credit and housing benefit",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 3 (applicable amounts) to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 14 (severe disability premium)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (2)(a)(iii), after “section 70 of the Act” insert “or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element under regulation 29 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013”;\n(b) in the closing words of sub-paragraph (2)(b)—\n(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and\n(ii) after “such an allowance” insert “or has such an award of universal credit”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (5)(b)—\n(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and\n(ii) after “be so entitled and in receipt” insert “or have such an award of universal credit”;\n(d) in sub-paragraph (6), after “carer’s allowance” insert “or universal credit which includes the carer element”; and\n(e) in sub-paragraph (7)—\n(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or as having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and\n(ii) after “that allowance” insert “or had such an award of universal credit”.\n(3) In paragraph 20 (amounts of premiums specified in Part 3)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (6)(b)(i), after “carer’s allowance” insert “or who has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element under regulation 29 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (6)(b)(ii), after “such an allowance” insert “or such an award of universal credit”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/213; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2007/719, 2009/583 and 2010/1160."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1754/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:31:44.880442+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."
}