This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2015/1754 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2022 No. 886
Social Security
The Universal Credit (Administrative Earnings Threshold) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Made
at 12.26 p.m. on 4th August 2022
Laid before Parliament
at 3.00 p.m. on 4th August 2022
Coming into force
26th September 2022
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 24(1) and 42(1) and (2) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012( 1 ).
In accordance with section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992( 2 ), the Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that the proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it.
Citation, commencement and extent
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Universal Credit (Administrative Earnings Threshold) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 26th September 2022.
(2) Any amendment made by these Regulations has the same extent as the provision amended.
Amendment of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013
2. For paragraph (6) of regulation 99 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 (circumstances in which requirements must not be imposed)( 3 ) substitute—
“ (6) This paragraph applies where—
(a) the claimant has monthly earnings (excluding any that are not employed earnings) that are equal to, or more than, the amount that a person would be paid at the hourly rate set out in regulation 4 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations for 12 hours per week, converted to a monthly amount by multiplying by 52 and dividing by 12; or
(b) the claimant is a member of a couple whose combined monthly earnings (excluding any that are not employed earnings) are equal to, or more than, the amount that a person would be paid at the hourly rate set out in regulation 4 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations for 19 hours per week, converted to a monthly amount by multiplying by 52 and dividing by 12. ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Stedman-Scott
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department for Work and Pensions
At 12.26 p.m. on 4th August 2022