{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-reduction-of-the-earnings-taper-rate-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-reduction-of-the-earnings-taper-rate-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/348",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Reduction of the Earnings Taper Rate) Amendment Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-reduction-of-the-earnings-taper-rate-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Changes to calculation of deductions in respect of earned income",
  "text": "(1) The Universal Credit Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 22(1)(b)(i) and (ii) (deduction of income and work allowance), substitute “63%” for “65%”.\n(3) In the definition of “the nil UC threshold” in regulation 54A(6) (surplus earnings), in the formula substitute “63” for “65”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/376. Regulation 22(1) was amended by S.I. 2015/1649. Regulation 54A was inserted by S.I. 2015/345 and amended by S.I. 2015/1754. It is subject to savings specified in S.I. 2015/345 and has not yet come into force."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/348/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:13:20.291175+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."
}