The Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2020

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2020/152
Year2020

2020 No. 152

Social Security

The Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2020

Made 12th February 2020

Coming into force 19th February 2020

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 41(5)(a) of the Welfare Reform Act 20121.

S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2020 and comes into force on 19th February 2020.

S-2 Extension of the In Work Pilot Scheme

Extension of the In Work Pilot Scheme

2. The In Work Pilot Scheme in Part 3 of the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme and Amendment Regulations 20152is to continue to have effect until the end of the period of twelve months beginning with 19th February 2020.

Mims Davies

Parliamentary-Under Secretary of State

Department for Work and Pensions

12th February 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends the period for which the pilot scheme established under the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme and Amendment Regulations 2015 ( S.I. 2015/89) (“the In Work Pilot Scheme Regulations”) has effect.

The In Work Pilot Scheme Regulations established the pilot scheme under section 41 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5)for the purpose of testing the imposition of work-related requirements on universal credit claimants in paid work where those requirements would otherwise be suspended by virtue of regulation 99(6) of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 ( S.I. 2013/376). Regulation 8 of the In Work Pilot Scheme Regulations provides for the pilot scheme to cease to have effect at the end of a period of three years unless the scheme continues to have effect by Order of the Secretary of State. Two Orders made under section 41(5)(a) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 have continued the effect of the pilot scheme3, the latest being the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme (Extension) Order 2019 ( S.I. 2019/249), which continued the scheme in effect for a period of twelve months beginning on 19th February 2019.

Article 2 of this Order continues the effect of the pilot scheme for a further period of twelve months beginning on 19th February 2020.

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