Amendment to Schedule 1A to the Housing Benefit Regulations
10. In Schedule 1A to the Housing Benefit Regulations (excluded tenancies) for sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 2 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph–
“(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall cease to apply where–
(a)a claimant has submitted a further claim for housing benefit and either–
(i)that claim follows a benefit period or consecutive benefit periods in respect of a previous claim or claims which he has made which, in either case, subsisted continuously for 52 weeks or more; or
(ii)his last benefit period was extended in accordance with regulation 66(5) (benefit period) and substisted continuously for 52 weeks or more following that extension; or
(b)in any other case, the determination mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) was made more than 12 months before the date on which the appropriate authority received the claim, notification, or request in question.”.