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

PART 1Personal allowances

1.  The amount specified in column (2) below in respect of each person or couple specified in column (1) shall be the amount specified for the purposes of regulation 22—

[F1Column (1)

Person, couple or polygamous marriage

Column (2)

Amount

(1) Single claimant or lone parent—(1)

(b)

(c)

who has attained pensionable age before 1st April 2021.

who has attained pensionable age on or after 1st April 2021.

(b)

(c)

£217.00.

£201.05.

(2) Couple—(2)

(b)

(c)

one member or both members who have attained pensionable age before 1st April 2021.

both members who have attained pensionable age on or after 1st April 2021.

(b)

(c)

£324.70.

£306.85.

(4) If the claimant is a member of a polygamous marriage and one or more members of the marriage have attained pensionable age before 1st April 2021—(4)
(a)for the claimant and the other party to the marriage;(a)£324.70;
(b)for each additional spouse who is a member of the same household as the claimant.(b)£107.70.
(5) If the claimant is a member of a polygamous marriage and all members of the marriage have attained pensionable age on or after 1st April 2021—(5)
(a)for the claimant and the other party to the marriage;(a)£306.85;
(b)for each additional spouse who is a member of the same household as the claimant.(b)£105.80.]

Textual Amendments

2.—(1) The amounts specified in column (2) below in respect of each person specified in column (1) shall, for the relevant period specified in column (1), be the amounts specified for the purposes of regulation 22—

Column (1)Column (2)
Child or young personAmount

Person in respect of the period—

 

(a)beginning on that person's date of birth and ending on the day preceding the first Monday in September following that person's sixteenth birthday;

(a)[F2£77.78];

(b)beginning on the first Monday in September following that persons 16th birthday and ending on the day preceding that person's [F3twentieth] birthday.

(b)[F4£77.78].

(2) In column (1) of the Table above, “the first Monday in September” means the Monday which first occurs in the month of September in any year.

Textual Amendments