The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

13.—(1) Any payment made pursuant to section 1 or 3 of the 1950 Act except—

(a) a payment made as a substitute for income support, a jobseeker’s allowance, incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance;

(b) a payment of an allowance referred to in section 1(1B) of the 1950 Act;

(c) a payment intended to meet the cost of living expenses which relate to any one or more of the items specified in sub-paragraph (2) whilst a claimant is participating in an education, training or other scheme to help him enhance his employment prospects; or

(d) for the purpose only of assessing entitlement to housing benefit in respect of a dwelling other than the one which the claimant normally occupies as his home, a payment made to a person to whom regulation 7(6)(b) applies to the extent that the payment is made in respect of the cost of living away from home.

(2) The items specified in this sub-paragraph for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c) are food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel, rent or rates of the claimant or, where the claimant is a member of a family, any other member of his family.

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph “rent or rates” means eligible rent or rates less any deductions in respect of non-dependants which fall to be made under regulation 72.