# The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015, Regulation 17: The carer element of universal credit and housing benefit


(1) Schedule 3 (applicable amounts) to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 14 (severe disability premium)—
(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”;
(b) in the closing words of sub-paragraph (2)(b)—
(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and
(ii) after “such an allowance” insert “or has such an award of universal credit”;
(c) in sub-paragraph (5)(b)—
(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and
(ii) after “be so entitled and in receipt” insert “or have such an award of universal credit”;
(d) in sub-paragraph (6), after “carer’s allowance” insert “or universal credit which includes the carer element”; and
(e) in sub-paragraph (7)—
(i) after “carer’s allowance” insert “or as having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element”; and
(ii) after “that allowance” insert “or had such an award of universal credit”.
(3) In paragraph 20 (amounts of premiums specified in Part 3)—
(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
(b) in sub-paragraph (6)(b)(ii), after “such an allowance” insert “or such an award of universal credit”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1754/regulation/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2015/regulation-17
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