UK Offence Report

The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Universal Credit) (Social Sector Size Criteria) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

Northern Ireland Statutory Rule 2025 No. 58 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
19 March 2025
In force from
Not determined
Extent
Not stated
Subject
TV licensing, fare evasion and school attendance

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations provide for welfare supplementary payments to mitigate the impact where a person is affected by the application of the social sector size criteria in the calculation of the housing costs element of universal credit. That is to say, where the number of bedrooms in a renter’s accommodation exceeds the number of bedrooms to which a renter is entitled in accordance with the regulations.

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