SCHEDULE 8Extended payments of housing benefit

PART IConditions for an extended payment

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The conditions prescribed in this paragraph are that the Department has certified to the relevant authority—

a

that the claimant or his partner was entitled to and in receipt of income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or that the claimant and his partner were entitled to and in receipt of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance and that entitlement has ceased;

b

the relevant day in his case;

c

that entitlement to income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance had ceased by reason of the claimant or his partner—

i

commencing employment as an employed or self employed earner;

ii

increasing their earnings from such employment, or

iii

increasing the number of hours worked in such employment; and

d

that the claimant had been entitled to and in receipt of income support or a jobseeker’s allowance for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks until the relevant day, and for the purpose of this sub-paragraph—

i

a claimant satisfies the conditions of this sub-paragraph if he has been entitled to and in receipt of a combination of income support and a jobseeker’s allowance for at least 26 weeks and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, a reference to the claimant being entitled to and in receipt of a jobseeker’s allowance shall include a reference to the claimant and his partner being entitled to and in receipt of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance; and

ii

references to the claimant include references to his partner.