PART 7Students
SECTION 2Entitlement and payments in respect of a dwelling
Occupying a dwelling as a person's home55
1
Subject to paragraph (2), a full-time student shall not be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home during any benefit week outside the period of study if he is absent from it for the whole of that week and if the main purpose of his occupation during the period of study would be to facilitate attendance on his course.
2
The provisions of paragraph (1) shall not apply to any absence occasioned by the need to enter hospital for treatment.