The Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006

Supply of information: extended payments (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit)

97.—(1) For the purposes of section 122E(3) of the Administration Act M1 (duty of an authority to supply information to another authority) the circumstances in which information is to be supplied 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 allowed council tax benefit by appropriate authority “A”;

(b) who is liable to pay council tax in respect of his second dwelling to authority “B”; and

(c) either—

(i) the extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit) is claimed from authority A; or

(ii) the extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit) is claimed from authority B, who then requests the information described in paragraph (3) from authority A,

authority A shall supply to authority B that information.

(3) The information to be supplied is—

(a) in a case where that extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit) was claimed from authority A, details relevant to that claim of—

(i) the matters set out in regulation 66 or regulation 61(1)(b)(i) to (iii), as the case may be; and

(ii) the matters notified pursuant to regulation 61(1)(a)(ii) or (b)(iv), as the case may be; and

(iii) the date it was so claimed; and

(b) in any case—

(i) the weekly rate of council tax benefit allowed to the mover by authority A;

(ii) if any deduction was being made from that benefit in respect of non-dependants, pursuant to regulations 57(1) and 58, the amount of those deductions;

(iii) if any addition was being made to any amount payable in respect of council tax to recover recoverable excess benefit pursuant to regulation 86(2)(b), the amount of those additions;

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

(v) if an extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit) was allowed to the mover, the amount and date of any such payment; and

(vi) if no extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit) was allowed, why none was allowed.

(4) In this regulation “mover” and “second dwelling” shall have the meanings assigned to them in paragraph 7 of Schedule 7.

Marginal Citations

M1 Inserted by the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47), section 3 and modified by the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), section 80 and Schedule 8, paragraph 34.