The Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006

Date on which entitlement is to begin

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64.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any person to whom or in respect of whom a claim for council tax benefit is made and who is otherwise entitled to that benefit shall be so entitled from the benefit week following the date on which that claim is made or is treated as made.

(2) Where a person is otherwise entitled to council tax benefit and becomes liable for the first time for a relevant authority's council tax in respect of a dwelling of which he is a resident in the benefit week in which his claim is made or is treated as made, he shall be so entitled from that benefit week.