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The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995

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Amendment of regulation 95 of the Housing Benefit Regulations

10.  In regulation 95 of the Housing Benefit Regulations(1) (withholding of benefit)—

(a)after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following new paragraph—

(4A) Where an authority has evidence (other than such evidence as has been considered by an adjudication officer) which raises a reasonable doubt as to the amount of a person’s income or capital for the purposes of his entitlement to income support and as a consequence it gives rise to a question as to his entitlement to housing benefit, the authority may withhold payment of housing benefit in whole or in part pending the determination of the income support question by an adjudication officer and pending the authority’s review under regulation 79.; and

(b)in paragraph (6), after the words “paragraph (4)” there shall be inserted the words “, (4A)”.

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Regulation 95 was amended by S.I. 1989/566 and S.I. 1992/2148.

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