PART XIIPayments

Frequency of payment of a rent allowanceI189

1

Subject to the following provisions of this regulation any rent allowance other than a payment made in accordance with regulation 87(2) or (3) or 90 shall be paid at intervals of 2 or 4 weeks or one month or, with the consent of the person entitled, at intervals greater than one month.

2

Except in a case to which paragraph (3) applies, any payment of a rent allowance shall be made, in so far as it is practicable to do so, at the end of the period in respect of which it is made.

3

Except in a case to which regulation 93(2) applies and subject to paragraph (4), this paragraph applies where payment of a rent allowance is being made to a landlord (which for these purposes has the same meaning as in regulations 92 and 93, when that payment shall be made—

a

at intervals of 4 weeks; and

b

at the end of the period in respect of which it is made.

4

Where paragraph (3) applies—

a

in a case where the liability in respect of which the rent allowance is paid is monthly, the Executive may make payment at intervals of one month;

b

in a case where the Executive is paying a rent allowance to a landlord in respect of more than one claimant, then the first such payment in respect of any claimant may be made to that landlord at such lesser interval as the Executive considers is in the best interest of the efficient administration of housing benefit.

5

Except in a case to which paragraph (3) applies, where a person’s weekly entitlement to a rent allowance is more than £2 he may require payment at 2 weekly intervals and the Executive shall pay at 2 weekly intervals in such a case.

6

Except in a case to which paragraph (3) applies, the Executive may pay a rent allowance at weekly intervals where either—

a

it considers that unless the rent allowance is paid at weekly intervals an overpayment is likely to occur; or

b

the person entitled is liable to pay his rent weekly and it considers that it is in his interest that his allowance be paid weekly.

7

Subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (5), the Executive may pay a rent allowance to a student once a term.