PART 7Amount of benefit

[F1Relationship between extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits) and entitlement to housing benefit under the general conditions of entitlement

53D.—(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 53(1)(b), that award will not cease until the end of the extended payment period.

(2) Part 8 (calculation of weekly amounts and changes of circumstances) shall not apply to any extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits) payable in accordance with regulation 53B(1)(a) or 53C(2) (amount of extended payment – movers).]

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