The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

Prescribed benefits

87.—(1) The benefits prescribed for the purposes of section 75(5) and (7) of the Administration Act(1) (recovery of overpayments) are those set out in the following paragraphs.

(2) Prescribed benefits within section 75(5)(a) of the Administration Act (benefits to which a landlord or agent is entitled) are—

(a) housing benefit; and

(b) those benefits prescribed from time to time in regulation 86(1) (recovery of overpayments from prescribed benefits), but only in cases where—

(i) an authority has, pursuant to regulation 83 (method of recovery), requested the Secretary of State to recover an overpayment of housing benefit from such benefits; and

(ii) the Secretary of State is satisfied as to the matters prescribed in paragraph (2)(a) and (b) of regulation 86.

(3) Housing benefit is prescribed for the purposes of section 75(5)(b) or (c) of the Administration Act (benefits paid to a landlord or agent to discharge an obligation owed by another person).

(4) Prescribed benefits within section 75(7) of the Administration Act (benefits recoverable from the county court or the sheriff court) are housing benefit and those benefits prescribed from time to time in regulation 86(1).

(1)

Inserted by Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47), section 16.