PART 8 E+W+S Amount of benefit

[F1 Relationship between extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits) and entitlement to housing benefit under the general conditions of entitlement E+W+S

73D.— (1) Where a claimant’s housing benefit award would have ended when the claimant ceased to be entitled to a qualifying contributory benefit in the circumstances listed in regulation 73(1)(b), that award will not cease until the end of the extended payment period.

(2) Part 9 (calculation of weekly amounts and changes of circumstances) shall not apply to any extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits) payable in accordance with regulation 73B(1)(a) or 73C(2) (amount of extended payment – movers).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Regs. 73A-73D substituted for (6.10.2008) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Extended Payments) Amendment Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/959), regs. 1(1), 3(2)