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4. A person is liable to meet housing costs where—
(a)the liability falls upon that person or that person’s partner but not where the liability is to a member of the same household as the person on whom the liability falls;
(b)because the person liable to meet the housing costs is not meeting them, the claimant has to meet those costs in order to continue to live in the dwelling occupied as the home and it is reasonable in all the circumstances to treat the claimant as liable to meet those costs;
(c)in practice the claimant shares the housing costs with other members of the household none of whom are close relatives either of the claimant or the claimant’s partner and—
(i)one or more of those members is liable to meet those costs, and
(ii)it is reasonable in the circumstances to treat the claimant as sharing responsibility.
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