Universal Credit- 18-21 year olds- housing costs restrictions- Click here for the law.
exemptions-
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● is responsible for a child or a qualifying young person;
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● was a care leaver before reaching the age of 18;
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● receives the care component of disability living allowance at the middle or highest rate or the daily living
component of personal independence payment;
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● has been subject to, or threatened with, domestic violence by their partner, former partner, or a family member;
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● cannot live with their parents due to a serious risk to their physical or mental health and the Secretary of State
considers it inappropriate to expect them to do so;
has earned income equal to or exceeding the monthly amount they would earn whilst working 16 hours per week at the National Minimum Wage; or
has earnings in each of the 6 months ending before the calendar month in which the claim for universal credit is made, that are equal to or more than the appropriate earnings threshold (in which case a six-month exemption will apply).also not apply to those–
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● in receipt of housing bene t or universal credit in live service areas;
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● receiving help with housing costs from housing bene t or the universal credit live service immediately prior to
a move to full service; and
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● in full service areas, whose award of universal credit includes the housing costs element when the regulations
come into force, but only until a break in entitlement to universal credit or the housing costs element. ESA – Work related activity component will no longer be paid for new clients- Click here for the law.
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