The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013

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

7.—(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(1) are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 7 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home)—

(a) for paragraph (16)(c)(i) substitute—

“(i) a person to whom paragraph (16A) applies;”; and

(b) after paragraph (16) insert—

“(16A) This paragraph applies to a person (“P”) who is detained in custody on remand pending trial, detained pending sentence upon conviction, or as a condition of bail, required to reside in a dwelling, other than a dwelling P occupies as P’s home, and who is not also detained in custody following sentence upon conviction.”.

(3) In paragraph 21(2) of Schedule 7 (capital to be disregarded)—

(a) omit “or” at the end of head (k); and

(b) after head (l) (2) add—

“or

(m) social fund payments.”.

(1)

S.R. 2006 No. 406; relevant amending Regulation is S.R. 2008 No. 378

(2)

Head (l) was added by regulation 4(13)(a)(ii) of S.R. 2008 No. 378