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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-8.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": "schedule/4/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/216/schedule/4/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:28.347682+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."
}