{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“LCWRA element” has the meaning in the Universal Credit Regulations;\n“the higher SDP rate” is the rate specified in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph 11(2)(b) of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 or, as the case may be, the corresponding rate of a severe disability premium in relation to income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance.\n(2) In paragraph 5(b)(i), the reference to a person being a carer for another person is to the person being entitled to, and in receipt of, a carer’s allowance or carer support payment or having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element in respect of caring for that other person.\n(3) In paragraph (2) “carer support payment” means the carer support payment component of carer support given in accordance with the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 substituted (27.1.2021) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Claimants previously entitled to a severe disability premium) Amendment Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/4), regs. 1, 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(1): Sch. 2 para. 8 renumbered as Sch. 2 para. 8(1) (29.6.2023) by The Social Security and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/543), regs. 1(1), 6(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(2) inserted (29.6.2023) by The Social Security and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/543), regs. 1(1), 6(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(2) inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 26(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(3) inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 26(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(3) substituted (15.3.2026) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Carer’s Assistance) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/246), arts. 1(2), 28"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1230/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}