The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992

PART XII Information

Information to be supplied by the Secretary of State to an appropriate authority

92.  For the purposes of section 128(1) of the Administration Act 1992(1) (information which may be supplied by the Secretary of State where required by appropriate authorities in connection with the exercise of their functions relating to council tax benefit), the information prescribed by this regulation is—

(a) the name, date of birth and address of any person who is in receipt of income support and of any partner he may have;

(b) the date on which a claim for income support under Part VII of the Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 by a person was received by the appropriate social security office;

(c) that a person’s claim for income support has been disallowed;

(d) where a person’s claim for income support has been disallowed, the reason for the disallowance;

(e) where an award of income support has been made to a person, the first day of entitlement to that benefit;

(f) the date on which a person’s entitlement to income support ended or is to end and the date on which the payment of income support ceased or is to cease;

(g) where a person’s entitlement to income support ends, the reason for it ending;

(h) the national insurance number in respect of any person who is in receipt of income support and of any partner he may have;

(i) where a person or any partner of his is in receipt of income support and changes his residence from the area of one appropriate authority to that of another, the date on which a claim for council tax benefit by that person or his partner is received by the appropriate social security office;

(j) where—

(i) a person in receipt of income support or any partner of his reports to an appropriate DSS office that another person is residing or has ceased to reside with him, and

(ii) that other person is a non-dependant,

the name and date of birth of that other person;

(k) any information not referred to in paragraphs (a) to (j) above which is required for the purpose of—

(i) the calculation and recovery of excess council tax benefit,

(ii) the investigation and prevention of offences relating to council tax benefit,

(iii) any proceedings for an offence relating to council tax benefit.

Information to be supplied by an appropriate authority to the Secretary of State

93.  For the purposes of section 128(2) of the Administration Act 1992 (information which is to be supplied by an appropriate authority where required by the Secretary of State in connection with any of his functions under that Act or the Contributions and Benefits Act 1992), the information prescribed by this regulation is—

(a) that a claim for council tax benefit has been disallowed;

(b) the date on which a person’s entitlement to council tax benefit ended or is to end;

(c) any information not referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above, which is required for the purpose of—

(i) the calculation and recovery of overpayments of benefits paid under the Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,

(ii) the investigation and prevention of offences relating to benefits under that Act,

(iii) any proceedings for offences relating to benefits under that Act.

(1)

Section 128 of the Administration Act 1992 was amended to apply to council tax benefit by the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) Schedule 9 paragraph 18.