---
title: "The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) (Modification) Regulations 2025"
id: d5159bd4-0286-4787-8a28-fcd323337810
authority: uk
place: "United Kingdom"
applies_also_from: []
kind: regulation
in_force: true
publisher_url: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/387
attribution: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
solon_url: https://solon.orangecat.ch/law/d5159bd4-0286-4787-8a28-fcd323337810
language: en
in_force_from: 2025-04-30
date_basis: publisher
status: consolidated
source_url: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/387/data.xml
read_on: 2026-11-10
sha256: adcd4afec0e338b61dfc3bbe996027d0f227487cad6c670011936b22fee1ea47
provisions: 3
---

# The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) (Modification) Regulations 2025

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2025 No. 387
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) (Modification) Regulations 2025
Made
25th March 2025
Laid before Parliament
27th March 2025
Coming into force
30th April 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1)(p) and (6) and 189(1), (4) and (5) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.
In accordance with section 172(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, the Secretary of State has referred the proposals in respect of these Regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee.

## 1 Citation, commencement, extent and cessation {#regulation-1}

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) (Modification) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 30th April 2025.
(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.
(3) These Regulations cease to have effect at the end of 30th April 2026.

## 2 Modification of the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 {#regulation-2}

Schedule 6 to the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 (deductions from benefit and direct payment to third parties) is to be read as if—
(a) in paragraph 5(2)—
(i) before paragraph (a) there were inserted—
(za) Schedule 7 (deductions from benefit in respect of child support maintenance and payment to persons with care) to these Regulations;
; and
(ii) paragraph (h) were omitted; and
(b) in paragraph 5(4), for “housing costs” there were substituted “deductions under Schedule 7 (deductions from benefit in respect of child support maintenance and payment to persons with care) to these Regulations”.