# The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016, Regulation 6B: Effect on universal credit award of two week run-on of income support, income-based jobseeker’s allowance and income-related employment and support allowance


In a case where an award of income support, income-based jobseeker’s allowance or income-related employment and support allowance is to continue for two weeks after the commencement of an award of universal credit by virtue of regulation 6(2A) or 47(1) or by virtue of regulation 4 (two week run-on of income-based jobseeker’s allowance and income-related employment and support allowance: day appointed for abolition) of the Universal Credit (Managed Migration and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019—
(a) regulation 79 of the Universal Credit Regulations applies as if the benefit in question was not included in the list of welfare benefits in Article 101(7) of the Order (benefit cap); and
(b) in a case where the claimant has become entitled to an award of new style JSA or new style ESA on the termination of an award of income-based jobseeker’s allowance or income-related employment and support allowance, the claimant is to be treated, for the purposes of regulation 73 of the Universal Credit Regulations (unearned income calculated monthly), as if they had been entitled to that award of new style JSA or new style ESA from the first day of the award of universal credit

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/226/regulation/6B (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-6B
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