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

Date of claim where claim sent or delivered to a gateway office

65.—(1) Subject to paragraph (11) of regulation 64, and with the exception of those claims to which paragraph (3) of this regulation refers, where a claim for housing benefit has been sent or delivered to a gateway office in accordance with sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (5) of regulation 64, the date on which that claim is made shall be—

(a) in a case where the claimant or his partner—

(i) claimed income support or a jobseeker’s allowance; but

(ii) has no entitlement to income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance,

the first date on which notification is deemed to be given in accordance with paragraph (2), but if that notification is by any means other than a claim which meets the requirements of regulation 64(2) such a claim must be received at a gateway office within one month of that notification;

(b) in a case where neither the claimant nor his partner is a person on income support or entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, the first date on which notification is deemed to be made in accordance with paragraph (2), but if that notification is by any means other than a claim which meets the requirements of regulation 64(2) such a claim must be received at the gateway office within one month of that notification; or

(c) in any other case, the date on which the claim for housing benefit is received at the gateway office.

(2) A notification of intention to make a claim is deemed to be given on the date on which notification from the claimant of his intention to claim housing benefit in whatever form is received at a gateway office.

(3) This regulation does not apply to claims which are made at an office of a designated authority in accordance with regulation 64(5)(c).