{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-71.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/71",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Calculation of student income – amount for an assessment period",
  "text": "The amount of a person's student income in relation to each assessment period in which the person is to be treated as having student income in accordance with regulation 68(1) is calculated as follows—\nStep 1\nDetermine whichever of the following amounts is applicable—\n(a) in so far as regulation 68(2) applies to a person with a student loan, the amount of the loan (and, if applicable, the amount of any grant) in relation to the year of the course in which the assessment period falls, ...\n(aa) in so far as regulation 68(2) applies to a person with a postgraduate loan, 30 per cent. of the amount of the loan in relation to the year of the course in which the assessment period falls; or\n(b) if regulation 68(4) applies (person with a grant but no student loan or postgraduate loan ) the amount of the grant in relation to the year of the course in which the assessment period falls.\nIf the period of the course is less than a year determine the amount of the grant or loan in relation to the course.\nStep 2\nDetermine in relation to—\n(c) the year of the course in which the assessment period falls, or\n(d) if the period of the course is less than a year, the period of the course,\nthe number of assessment periods for which the person is to be treated as having student income under regulation 68(1).\nBut where the first day of the person’s current universal credit award is on a date later than the first day of the year of the course, or period of the course in question, each period of one month beginning on the same day as the assessment periods for, and preceding the commencement of, that award is to be treated as an assessment period when determining the number of assessment periods for which the person is to be treated as having student income.\nStep 3\nDivide the amount produced by step 1 by the number of assessment periods produced by step 2.\nStep 4\nDeduct £110.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 71 substituted (15.7.2020) by The Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/108), regs. 1(1), 8(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 71 omitted (15.7.2020) by virtue of The Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/108), regs. 1(1), 8(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 71 inserted (15.7.2020) by The Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/108), regs. 1(1), 8(4)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 71 inserted (15.7.2020) by The Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/108), regs. 1(1), 8(4)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 71 inserted (3.4.2024) by The Social Security and Universal Credit (Migration of Tax Credit Claimants and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/54), regs. 1(2)(c), 7(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/216/regulation/71",
    "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."
}