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The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006
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19.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 137(1) of the Act as it applies to housing benefit (definition of family) is a person [F1who falls within the definition of qualifying young person in section 142 of the Act (child and qualifying young person)], and in these Regulations such a person is referred to as a “young person”.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person who is—
(a)on income support [F2, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance];F3...
F4(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c)a person to whom section 6 of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 F5 (exclusion from benefits) applies[F6; or
(d)entitled to an award of universal credit.]
(3) A person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 137(1) of the Act as it applies to housing benefit (definition of the family) includes a child or young person in respect of whom section 145A of that Act F7 applies for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit but only for the period prescribed under section 145A(1) of that Act.
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F1Words in reg. 19(1) substituted (10.4.2006) by Social Security (Young Persons) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/718), regs. 1(2)(a), 4(2)(a)
F2Words in reg. 19(2)(a) substituted (27.10.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1082), regs. 1, 32
F3Word in reg. 19(2) omitted (29.4.2013) by virtue of The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 36(3)
F4Reg. 19(2)(b) omitted (10.4.2006) by virtue of Social Security (Young Persons) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/718), regs. 1(2)(a), 4(2)(c)
F6Reg. 19(2)(d) and word inserted (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 36(3)
F7Section 145A was inserted by section 55 of the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21).
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