The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 No. 406

SCHEDULE 7 N.I. Capital to be disregarded

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 7 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2007) by The Rate Relief (Qualifying Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/203), regs. 1(1), 19(4)

PART I N.I. Capital to be disregarded generally

4.  Any premises occupied in whole or in part by— N.I.

(a) a person who is a relative of the claimant or of his partner as his home [F1 where that person has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit or is incapacitated] ;

(b) the former partner of the claimant as his home; but this provision shall not apply where the former partner is a person from whom the claimant is estranged or divorced or with whom he had formed a civil partnership that has been dissolved.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 7 para. 4(a) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/103), regs. 1(1), 9(3)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 7 para. 4 in operation at 20.11.2006, see reg. 1(1)