{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-2014/regulation-60C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-2014/regulation-60C.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1230",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/60C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "60C",
  "heading": "Exemption from the benefit cap",
  "text": "Where a qualifying claim is made by a single claimant who has, or joint claimants both of whom have, reached the qualifying age for state pension credit, regulation 79 (circumstances where the benefit cap applies) of the Universal Credit Regulations is not to apply for the purpose of calculating the amount of an award of universal credit (including the indicative UC amount).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4 inserted (24.7.2019) by The Universal Credit (Managed Migration Pilot and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1152), regs. 1(2), 3(7) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Regs. 60A-60C inserted (8.6.2024) by The Social Security (State Pension Age Claimants: Closure of Tax Credits) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/611), regs. 1(1), 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1230/regulation/60C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:45:32.075533+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."
}