The Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit and Supply of Information (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996

Amendment of regulation 67 of the Housing Benefit Regulations

12.—(1) Regulation 67 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (date on which benefit period is to end)(1) shall be re-numbered paragraph (1) of regulation 67 and shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (1)(a)—

(a) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “subject to paragraph (2),”; and

(b) after the words “income support” there shall be inserted the words “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.

(3) In paragraph (1)(b)—

(a) after the words “income support” in each place where they occur there shall be inserted the words “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”; and

(b) for the words “the Social Security Act” there shall be substituted the words “the benefit Acts”.

(4) At the end of the regulation there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(2) Sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) shall not apply where—

(a) the claimant ceases to be entitled to income support and immediately after that entitlement ceases an entitlement to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance commences for him; or

(b) the claimant ceases to be entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance and immediately after that entitlement ceases an entitlement to income support commences for him.”.

(1)

Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/546 and 1995/560.