The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

[F1Housing costs]N.I.

9.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the F2...housing costs to be met in any particular case are—

(a)where the claimant has been entitled to an employment and support allowance for a continuous period of 39 weeks or more, an amount—

(i)determined in the manner set out in paragraph 11 by applying the standard rate to the eligible capital for the time being owing in connection with a loan which qualifies under paragraph 16 or 17, and

(ii)equal to any payments which qualify under paragraph 18(1)(a) to (c);

(b)in any other case, nil.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) and subject to sub-paragraph (3), the eligible capital for the time being owing is to be determined on the date the F2...housing costs are first met and thereafter on each anniversary of that date.

(3) Where a claimant or that claimant’s partner ceases to be in receipt of or treated as being in receipt of income support, income-based jobseeker’s allowance or state pension credit and one of them becomes entitled to an income-related allowance in a case to which paragraph 3 applies, the eligible capital for the time being owing is to be recalculated on each anniversary of the date on which the housing costs were first met for whichever of the benefits concerned the claimant or that claimant’s partner was first entitled.

F3(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F3(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F3(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F3(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C4Sch. 6 para. 9(1) applied (with modifications) (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Housing Costs Special Arrangements) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/503), reg. 6(b) (with regs. 3, 7)

C5Sch. 6 para. 9(1)(b): sum specified (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(1)(l) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 (revoked) 2013 (S.R. 2013/69), arts. 1(1)(l), 25(6), Sch. 16

C6Sch. 6 para. 9(1)(b): sum specified (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(1)(l) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2014 (revoked) 2014 (S.R. 2014/78), arts. 1(1)(l), 25(6), Sch. 16

C7Sch. 6 para. 9(1)(b): sum specified (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(1)(l) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (revoked) 2015 (S.R. 2015/124), arts. 1(1)(l), 25(6), Sch. 16

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 6 para. 9 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)