{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/376",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Exempt renters",
  "text": "(1) No deduction is to be made under paragraph 13 in the case of—\n(a) any renter who is a single person to whom sub-paragraph (2) applies; or\n(b) any joint renter where at least one joint renter is a person to whom sub-paragraph (2) applies.\n(2) This sub-paragraph applies to—\n(a) a person who is ... blind;\n(b) a person in receipt of the care component of disability living allowance at the middle or highest rate;\n(ba) a person in receipt of the care component of child disability payment at the middle or highest rate in accordance with regulation 11(5) of the DACYP Regulations;\n(bb) a person in receipt of the care component of Scottish adult disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate in accordance with regulation 6(4) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025;\n(c) a person in receipt of attendance allowance;\n(ca) a person in receipt of pension age disability payment;\n(d) a person in receipt of the daily living component of personal independence payment;\n(da) a person in receipt of the daily living component of adult disability payment at the standard or enhanced rate;\n(e) a person who is entitled to a payment within paragraph (b) , (bb) , (c) , (ca), (d) or (da) but is not receiving it under, as the case may be—\n(i) regulation 8 of the Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991,\n(ii) regulation 6 of the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991,\n(iii) regulation 21 of the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982, ...\n(iv) regulations under section 86 of the Act (payment of personal independence payment while a person is a hospital in-patient) ...;\n(v) regulation 28 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Adult Disability Payment) of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022 , ...\n(vi) regulation 20 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to pension age disability payment) of the Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024 , or\n(vii) regulation 23 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Scottish adult disability living allowance) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(a) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 3(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(ba) inserted (26.7.2021) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance for Children and Young People) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/786), art. 1(2), Sch. 11 para. 8(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(bb) inserted (21.3.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 15(8)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(ca) inserted (21.10.2024) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/919), arts. 1(1), 14(7)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(da) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 13(8)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(e) inserted (21.3.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 15(8)(b)(ii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(e) substituted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 13(8)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(e) inserted (21.10.2024) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/919), arts. 1(1), 14(7)(b)(ii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(e)(iii) omitted (21.3.2022) by virtue of The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 13(8)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(e)(iv) omitted (21.10.2024) by virtue of The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/919), arts. 1(1), 14(7)(b)(ii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(e)(v) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 13(8)(d)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(e) omitted (21.3.2025) by virtue of The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 15(8)(b)(ii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(e)(vi) inserted (21.10.2024) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/919), arts. 1(1), 14(7)(b)(ii)(cc)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 15(2)(e)(vii) and word inserted (21.3.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 15(8)(b)(ii)(cc)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/2890."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/2740."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1408."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/376/schedule/4/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:36:10.415553+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."
}