The Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance, Information Sharing and Miscellaneous) Amendment Regulations 2008

Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance, Miscellaneous and Consequential) Amendment Regulations 2007

6.—(1) The Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance, Miscellaneous and Consequential) Amendment Regulations 2007(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 4 (amendment of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001)—

(a) in paragraph (3), in the inserted regulation 7A(2) for “regulation 13C” in both places in which it occurs substitute “regulation 13C(3)”; and

(b) in paragraph (4)(b), for the substituted paragraph (15) substitute—

“(15) A decision to which regulation 7A(2) applies shall take effect—

(a) on the day of decision, where the determination in accordance with regulation 13C(3) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or regulation 13C(3) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (when maximum rent (LHA) is to be determined) was made on the first day of the benefit week; and

(b) in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week following the week in which the determination in accordance with regulation 13C(3) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or regulation 13C(3) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (when maximum rent (LHA) is to be determined) was made.”.

(1)

S.I. 2007/2870.