The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1999 No. 1539

Amendment of regulation 65 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations

9.  In regulation 65 of the Council Tax 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 62A, a change of circumstances may be reported in writing to that office, or to any other gateway office that was notified to him on or with his claim form.”.