{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-benefit-cap-earnings-exception-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-benefit-cap-earnings-exception-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/138",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Benefit Cap Earnings Exception) Amendment Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-benefit-cap-earnings-exception-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Exception to the application of the benefit cap – earnings",
  "text": "(1) The Universal Credit Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 6(1A) (rounding), before paragraph (a) insert—\n“(za) regulation 82(1)(a) (exceptions – earnings);”.\n(3) In regulation 82 (exceptions – earnings)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a), for “£430”, substitute—\n“the amount of earnings that a person would be paid at the hourly rate set out in regulation 4 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations for 16 hours per week, converted to a monthly amount by multiplying by 52 and dividing by 12”;\n(b) in paragraph (2)(a), for “less than the amount mentioned in paragraph (1)(a)”, substitute—\n“less than—\n(i) where the assessment period began before 1st April 2017, £430; or\n(ii) in any other case, the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (1)(a)”; and\n(c) in paragraph (3), for “exceeded the amount mentioned in paragraph (1)(a)”, substitute—\n“exceeded—\n(a) in any month beginning before 1st April 2017, £430; and\n(b) in any other case, the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (1)(a)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/376. Regulation 6(1A) was inserted by S.I. 2015/1754."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/138/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:15:19.170439+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."
}