SCHEDULE 8Extended payments of housing benefit

PART IVInterpretation

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In this Schedule—

  • “claimant” means a person claiming an extended payment;

  • “the relevant day” means the day on which the claimant’s entitlement to income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance ceased;

  • “second dwelling” means the dwelling to which a person has moved, or is about to move, which he is or will be occupying as his new home, and where the liability to make payments of rent or rates or both in respect of his dwelling follows on immediately from the liability to make payments of rent or rates or both in respect of his previous dwelling.