The Social Security (Welfare to Work) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Amendment of the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations

12.  In regulation 5 of the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(1) (savings)—

(a) in paragraph (1) for “(2) or (2A)” there shall be substituted “(2), (2A) or (2AB)”;

(b) after paragraph (2A) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“(2AB) This paragraph applies in the case of a person—

(a) who was entitled to housing benefit in respect of the dwelling he occupied as his home on or before 5th October 1997;

(b) whose entitlement to housing benefit in respect of that dwelling was continuous from that date until it ceased because either the person or his partner became a welfare to work beneficiary;

(c) who on the day before entitlement to housing benefit ceased, was in receipt of an addition to benefit by virtue of regulation 11(4) or (5) of the principal Regulations as they had effect on 5th October 1997, and

(d) who subsequently becomes re-entitled to housing benefit in respect of that dwelling within 52 weeks of him or his partner becoming a welfare to work beneficiary.

(2AC) Paragraph (2A) shall continue to have effect in the case of a person who has ceased to be a welfare to work beneficiary or whose partner has ceased to be such a beneficiary where the person is entitled to housing benefit at the end of the 52 week period to which paragraph (2AB) refers.”; and

(c) in paragraph (2B) after the definition of “benefit period” there shall be added the following definition—

““welfare to work beneficiary” means a person to whom regulation 13A(1) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 applies.”.

(1)

S.R. 1997 No. 170; regulation 5 was amended by regulation 2(4) of S.R. 1997 No. 377