http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2006/214

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/214/regulation/10/2019-05-07

The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

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2024-10-17

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2019-05-07

These Regulations consolidate existing provisions relating to housing benefit for claimants who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit. In the case of a woman that age is pensionable age and in the case of a man it is the age which is pensionable age in the case of a woman born on the same day as the man (section 1(6) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002). These Regulations do not however apply if either the claimant or the claimants partner in receipt of income support or an income-based jobseeker's allowance, notwithstanding that the claimant has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit. Provisions relating to those claimants and others who have not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit are contained in the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006.

The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

reg. 31(11)(d)

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The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024

art. 12(3)(a)

art. 1(1)

The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

reg. 31(11)(ea)

The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024

art. 12(3)(b)

art. 1(1)

The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

reg. 55(6)(b)

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The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024

art. 12(4)(a)

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para. 5(2)(aa)

The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024

art. 12(5)(a)

art. 1(1)

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para. 6(7)(e)

The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024

art. 12(5)(b)(ii)

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Sch. 4

para. 5(1)(a)

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The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024

art. 12(6)

art. 1(1)

PART 2Provisions affecting entitlement to housing benefit

Persons from abroad10

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A person from abroad who is liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling shall be treated as if he were not so liable but this paragraph shall not have effect in respect of a person to whom and for a period to which regulation 10A (entitlement of a refugee to housing benefit) and Schedule A1 F1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees) apply.

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F3In paragraph (1), “person from abroad” means, subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a person who is not habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland.

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F3No person shall be treated as habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland unless he has a right to reside in (as the case may be) the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland other than a right to reside which falls within paragraph (4) F16or (4ZA).

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F3A right to reside falls within this paragraph if it is one which exists by virtue of, or in accordance with, one or more of the following—

a

C1 regulation 13 of the F19Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016;

b

regulation 14 of those Regulations, but only in a case where the right exists under that regulation because the person is—

i

a jobseeker for the purpose of the definition of “qualified person” in regulation 6(1) of those Regulations, or

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a family member (within the meaning of regulation 7 of those Regulations) of such a jobseeker;

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regulation 16 of those Regulations, but only in a case where the right exists under that regulation because the person satisfies the criteria in paragraph (5) of that regulation;

c

Article 6 of Council Directive No. 2004/38/ EC; F7...

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F6Article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (in a case where the person is seeking work in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland)F8; or

e

Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (in a case where the right to reside arises because a British citizen would otherwise be deprived of the genuine enjoyment of the substance of their rights as a European Union citizen).

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A right to reside falls within this paragraph if it exists by virtue of a person having been granted limited leave to enter, or remain in, the United Kingdom under the Immigration Act 1971 by virtue of—

a

Appendix EU to the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of that Act; or

b

being a person with a Zambrano right to reside as defined in Annex 1 of Appendix EU to the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of that Act.

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A person is not a person from abroad if he is—

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F14a qualified person for the purposes of regulation 6 of the F18Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 as a worker or a self-employed person;

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a family member of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (za) within the meaning of regulation 7(1)(a), (b) or (c) of those Regulations;

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a person who has a right to reside permanently in the United Kingdom by virtue of regulation 15(1)(c), (d) or (e) of those Regulations;

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a refugee;

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a person who has been granted leave or who is deemed to have been granted leave outside the rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 where that leave is—

i

discretionary leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom;

ii

leave to remain under the Destitution Domestic Violence concession; or

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leave deemed to have been granted by virtue of regulation 3 of the Displaced Persons (Temporary Protection) Regulations 2005;

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a person who has humanitarian protection granted under those rules;

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a person who is not a person subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and who is in the United Kingdom as a result of his deportation, expulsion or other removal by compulsion of law from another country to the United Kingdom; F10or

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on state pension credit.

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In this regulation—

~~F4 “a European Economic Area State” means a Member State or Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Austria or Finland;~~
“refugee” in this regulation means a person recorded by the Secretary of State as a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the Status of RefugeesF2.