# The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230) (“Transitional Regulations”).
Regulation 2(2) amends regulation 44 of the Transitional Regulations to ensure that recipients of certain social security benefits that are soon to be abolished, and who are issued universal credit migration notices shortly before the abolition, can access the transitional protection for which the Transitional Regulations provide. The amendment does this by aligning the deadline day set out in the migration notice with the day appointed for the abolition of the relevant benefit. Where a person is a recipient of housing benefit and another legacy benefit, the deadline day is to be determined by the appointed day for the other legacy benefit.
Regulation 2(3) inserts a new regulation 63A into the Transitional Regulations. Regulation 63A will overcome the disadvantage experienced by claimants who lose certain transitional protection because they made a claim for universal credit that had been refused on the ground of inadequate identity verification but their legacy benefits were incorrectly continued. The regulation does this by deeming those claimants as having continued to be entitled to various legacy benefits.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/6/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-amendment-regulations-2026/note
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