PART 9Claims

Modification of Part IX and Schedule 10I125

1

Part IX of the Housing Benefit F1(State Pension Credit) Regulations13 (claims) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with the following modifications—

a

as if for “housing benefit”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief”;

b

as if for “benefit week”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief week”;

c

as if for “dwelling”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “hereditament”;

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as if in regulation 62—

i

in paragraphs (5B) to (5G) for “the Department” there were substituted “the Department for Social Development”;

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iii

in paragraph (11) for “award benefit” there were substituted “award rate relief”;

e

as if in regulation 62A after “Schedule 10” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 25”;

f

as if in regulation 63—

i

in paragraph (1) after “Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees)” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

ii

in paragraph 3(a) and (b) after “regulation 65” there were inserted “ of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modification for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 25”;

iii

in paragraph (4)(a)(i) and (b) after “Housing Benefit Regulations” and “those Regulations” there were inserted “as applied with modifications for the purposes of the Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 by regulation 19 of those Regulations”;

iv

in paragraph (4)(c) after “or (c)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 21”;

g

as if—

F2i

in regulation 64(2) and (5) after “regulation 62”;

ii

in regulation 65(1)(a) after “regulation 62”;

iii

in regulation 65A after “regulation 65”,

there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 25;”;

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as if in regulation 65(5)(b) for “£16,000” there were substituted “£50,000”;

h

as if in regulation 65(5)(c)—

i

in head (i) after “regulation 22”;

ii

in head (ii) after “regulation 25(4)(e)”,

there were inserted “ of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modification for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 19”;

i

as if in regulation 65A after “Schedule 10” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 25”.

2

Schedule 10 to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations14 (electronic communication) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with the following modification as if in paragraph 2(1) for “housing benefit” there were substituted “rate relief”.