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

Information to be supplied by an authority to another authority

96.—(1) For the purposes of section 128A of the Administration Act(1) (duty of an authority to disclose information to another authority) the circumstances in which information is to be disclosed are prescribed in paragraph (2) and the information prescribed by this regulation is described in paragraph (3).

(2) The circumstances prescribed in this paragraph are, where—

(a) there is a mover who is or was in receipt of housing benefit from local authority “A”;

(b) either his second dwelling is within the area of another authority “B” or he is liable or treated as liable to make payments in respect of his second dwelling to housing authority B; and

(c) either—

(i) a payment under regulation 72 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 is claimed from authority A; or

(ii) such a payment is claimed from authority B, who then requests the prescribed information from authority A,

authority A shall disclose to authority B the information prescribed in paragraph (3).

(3) The information to be disclosed is—

(a) in a case where the payment under regulation 72 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 was claimed from authority A, details relevant to that claim of—

(i) the matters certified pursuant to regulation 72 of and paragraph 1 of Schedule 7 to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006;

(ii) the matters notified pursuant to regulation 72 of and paragraph 2 of that Schedule;

(iii) the date it was so claimed;

(b) in the case of a person to whom regulation 6(5) of the Income Support Regulations(2) (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies—

(i) the date on which he was first engaged in the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 6(5) of those Regulations; and

(ii) the date on which his entitlement to income support ceased or was expected to cease; and

(c) in any case—

(i) the weekly rate of housing benefit awarded to the mover by authority A;

(ii) if any deduction was being made from that benefit in respect of non-dependants, pursuant to regulations 50 (maximum housing benefit) and 55 (non-dependant deductions), the amount of those deductions;

(iii) if any deduction was being made from that benefit in respect of a recoverable overpayment pursuant to regulation 83 (method of recovery), the amount of those deductions;

(iv) the date on which his entitlement to housing benefit ceased;

(v) if a payment under regulation 72 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 was made to the mover, the amount and date of any such payment; and

(vi) if no such payment was made, why none was made.

(4) In this regulation, “mover”, “the relevant day” and “second-dwelling” have the meanings assigned to them in paragraph 11 of Schedule 7 to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006.

(1)

Section 128A was inserted by section 28(2) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18).

(2)

S.I. 1987/1967; the relevant amending Instrument is S.I. 2001/488.