The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1999

Amendment of regulation 75 of the Housing Benefit Regulations

5.  In regulation 75 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (duty to notify changes of circumstances) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

(1A) In the case of a claimant who sent or delivered his claim to a gateway office in accordance with regulation 72A, a change of circumstances may be reported in writing to that office, or to any other gateway office of which he was notified on or with his claim form..