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The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

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PART 1E+W+SConditions for an extended payment

1.  The conditions prescribed in this paragraph are that the Secretary of State has certified to the relevant authority—E+W+S

(a)that the claimant or his partner was entitled to and in receipt of income support or an income-based jobseeker's allowance or that the claimant and his partner were entitled to and in receipt of a joint-claim jobseeker's allowance and that entitlement has ceased;

(b)the relevant day in his case;

(c)that entitlement to income support or an income-based jobseeker's allowance had ceased by reason of the claimant or his partner—

(i)commencing employment as an employed or self-employed earner; or

(ii)increasing their earnings from such employment; or

(iii)increasing the number of hours worked in such employment; and

(d)that the claimant had been entitled to and in receipt of income support or a jobseeker's allowance for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks until the relevant day, and for the purpose of this head—

(i)a claimant satisfies the conditions of this sub-paragraph if he has been entitled to and in receipt of a combination of income support and a jobseeker's allowance for at least 26 weeks and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, a reference to the claimant being entitled to and in receipt of a jobseeker's allowance shall include a reference to the claimant and his partner being entitled to and in receipt of a joint-claim jobseeker's allowance;

(ii)the claimant shall be treated as having been entitled to and in receipt of income support or a jobseeker's allowance during any period of less than 5 weeks in respect of which he was not entitled to either of those benefits because, as a consequence of his participation in an employment zone programme, he was engaged in remunerative work; and

(iii)references to the claimant include references to his partner.

2.  The conditions prescribed in this paragraph are that the claimant or the claimant's partner—E+W+S

(a)notifies either the designated office or an appropriate DWP office that he or his partner—

(i)has commenced , or is about to commence, remunerative work;

(ii)has commenced, or is about to commence, receiving remuneration for work or an increased amount of remuneration for work; or

(iii)has commenced, or is about to commence, an increased number of hours of work,

so that entitlement to income support or to an income-based jobseeker's allowance ceases and that work or, as the case may be, remuneration, is expected to last 5 weeks or more; and

(b)makes that notification no later than 4 weeks after the day on which the claimant or his partner first undertakes the remunerative work referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(i) or first receives remuneration for the work or an increased amount of remuneration for the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(ii), or first commences the increased number of hours of work referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(iii).

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