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Title and introductory text
2026 No. 946
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026
Made
at 10.30 a.m. on 1st September 2026
Laid before Parliament
at 3.00 p.m. on 1st September 2026
Coming into force
22nd September 2026
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and 189(1), (4) and (6) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.
In accordance with section 173(1)(b) of that Act, the Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that the proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it.
Propose a change1 Citation, commencement and extent
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026 and come into force on 22nd September 2026.
(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.
Propose a change2 Amendment of the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013
After regulation 32A(2) of the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 insert—
(3) Where, in the month that would otherwise be the fifth month for the purposes of paragraph (2), the claimant (or either of joint claimants) is a participant in a funded employment scheme, having been placed on such scheme by the Secretary of State, the maximum of 5 months referred to in that paragraph is to be extended up to and including the first month in which the claimant is not (or in the case of joint claimants neither of them is) a participant in the scheme.
(4) In this regulation “funded employment scheme” means a scheme under which the wages of the claimant are funded, in whole or in part, pursuant to arrangements by the Secretary of State or Scottish or Welsh Ministers under section 2(1) of the Employment and Training Act 1973.
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