{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-9.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/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Extended benefit unit of a renter for purposes of this Schedule",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Schedule, the members of a renter's extended benefit unit are—\n(a) the renter (or joint renters);\n(b) any child or qualifying young person for whom the renter or either joint renter is responsible; and\n(c) any person who is a non-dependant.\n(2) A person is a non-dependant if the person normally lives in the accommodation with the renter (or joint renters) and is none of the following—\n(a) a person within sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (b);\n(b) where the renter is a member of a couple claiming as a single person, the other member of the couple;\n(c) a foster child;\n(d) a person who is liable to make payments on a commercial basis in respect of the person's occupation of the accommodation (whether to the renter, joint renters or another person);\n(e) a person to whom the liability to make relevant payments is owed or a member of their household;\n(f) a person who has already been treated as a non-dependant in relation to a claim for universal credit by another person liable to make relevant payments in respect of the accommodation occupied by the renter.\n(g) a child or qualifying young person for whom no-one in the renter’s extended benefit unit is responsible.\n(3) “Foster child” means a child in relation to whom the renter (or either joint renter) is a foster parent.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 9(2) inserted (4.12.2013) by the Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2828), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 9(2)(g) inserted (4.12.2013) by the Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2828), regs. 1, 4(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/376/schedule/4/paragraph/9",
    "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."
}