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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2026/4",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 226) (“Transitional Regulations”).\nRegulation 2(2) amends regulation 45 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.\nRegulation 2(3) inserts a new regulation 64A into the Transitional Regulations. Regulation 64A 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.\nThese Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8), are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/4/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:24:37.183474+00:00"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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