{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/216",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Capital limit",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Article 10(1)(a) and (2)(a) of the Order (financial conditions: capital limit)—\n(a) the prescribed amount for a single claimant is £16,000, and\n(b) the prescribed amount for joint claimants is £16,000.\n(2) In a case where the person is a member of a couple, but makes a claim as a single person, the claimant's capital is to be treated as including the capital of the other member of the couple.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/216/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:18.733448+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."
}