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.”.