Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations in relation to payment of housing benefit to students
7. In regulation 50 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (eligible housing costs) –
(a)in paragraph (1) for “paragraphs (2) and (3)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (2) to (4)”;
(b)in paragraph (2) for “Where” there shall be substituted “Subject to paragraph (4), where”;
(c)after paragraph (3)(1) there shall be added the following paragraph –
(4) Housing benefit shall be payable during the period of study in respect of payments made by a student to an educational establishment which the student is attending where the student –
(a)is one who falls within a category specified in regulation 48A(2), or
(b)would fall within a category specified in regulation 48A(2)(aa) to (g) if he were a full-time student.”.
Paragraph (3) was amended by regulation 3(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.R. 2001 No. 215