{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-6A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-6A.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/226",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/6A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6A",
  "heading": "Transitional housing payment",
  "text": "Where an award of housing benefit terminates under regulation 6 ...—\n(a) the claimant is to be treated for the purposes of the Housing Benefit Regulations as entitled to universal credit during the period of 2 weeks mentioned in regulation 6(2A) ..., even if no decision has been made on the claim; ...\n(b) if a claim for universal credit is made and the claimant moves to new accommodation occupied as the claimant’s home, then, notwithstanding anything in the Housing Benefit Regulations, housing benefit is to be paid directly to the claimant during the period of 2 weeks mentioned in regulation 6(2A) ... ; and\n(c) if a claim for universal credit is made by a notified person then, notwithstanding anything in the Housing Benefit Regulations, the weekly amount of housing benefit to which the person is entitled for that period of two weeks is the same as the weekly amount they were entitled to on the first day of that period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6A inserted (8.5.2018) by The Universal Credit (Persons Required to Provide Information, Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/92), regs. 1(2), 9(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6A omitted (27.1.2025) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/3), regs. 1(2), 6(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6A(a) omitted (27.1.2025) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/3), regs. 1(2), 6(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6A(a) omitted (24.7.2019) by virtue of The Universal Credit (Managed Migration and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/152), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6A(b) omitted (27.1.2025) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/3), regs. 1(2), 6(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 6A(c) and word inserted (24.7.2019) by The Universal Credit (Managed Migration and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/152), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/226/regulation/6A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:32:14.754663+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."
}