The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2000

Amendment to Schedule 1A to the Housing Benefit Regulations

10.  In Schedule 1A to the Housing Benefit Regulations (excluded tenancies) for sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 2 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph–

“(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall cease to apply where–

(a) a claimant has submitted a further claim for housing benefit and either–

(i) that claim follows a benefit period or consecutive benefit periods in respect of a previous claim or claims which he has made which, in either case, subsisted continuously for 52 weeks or more; or

(ii) his last benefit period was extended in accordance with regulation 66(5) (benefit period) and substisted continuously for 52 weeks or more following that extension; or

(b) in any other case, the determination mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) was made more than 12 months before the date on which the appropriate authority received the claim, notification, or request in question.”.