The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

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4.  Any premises occupied in whole or in part—E+W+S

(a)by a partner or relative of a single claimant or any member of the family as his home [F1where that person has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit or is incapacitated];

(b)by the former partner of the claimant as his home; but this provision shall not apply where the former partner is a person from whom the claimant is estranged or divorced or with whom he had formed a civil partnership that has been dissolved.

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