Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations
4.—(1) In Schedule 4, paragraph 27(a)(i)(1) to the Housing Benefit Regulations (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) after “authority” there shall be added “but excluding payments of housing benefit made in respect of the person concerned”.
(2) The amendment made by paragraph (3) is to the Housing Benefit Regulations as modified in their application to persons to whom regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 applies.
(3) In regulation 33(2)(d)(i) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (earnings of self-employed earners) after “authority” there shall be added “but excluding payments of housing benefit made in respect of the person concerned”.
Paragraph 27 was substituted by regulation 4(1) and (2)(c) of S.R. 1998 No. 81