20. Where a person has not made a claim for housing benefit, the relevant authority shall assess what the amount of his entitlement to housing benefit in the form of a rate rebate (“notional amount”) would be were he to make such a claim and an amount equivalent to that notional amount shall be taken into account in full as housing benefit when assessing entitlement to rate relief in accordance with regulation 22 (calculation of weekly amount of rate relief).
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 20 in operation at 1.4.2007, see reg. 1(1)