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

Supply of information: extended payments (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit)

97.—(1) For the purposes of section 122E(3) of the Administration Act(1) (duty of an authority to supply information to another authority) the circumstances in which information is to be supplied are prescribed in paragraph (2) and the information prescribed by this regulation is described in paragraph (3).

(2) The circumstances prescribed in this paragraph are, where—

(a) there is a mover who is or was in receipt of housing benefit from a local authority “A”;

(b) either his second dwelling is within the area of another local authority “B” or he is liable or treated as liable to make payments in respect of his second dwelling to housing authority B; and

(c) either—

(i) the extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit) is claimed from authority A; or

(ii) the extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit) is claimed from authority B, who then requests the information described in paragraph (3) from authority A,

authority A shall supply to authority B that information.

(3) The information to be supplied is—

(a) in a case where that extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit) was claimed from authority A, details relevant to that claim of—

(i) the matters set out in regulation 58 or regulation 53(1)(b)(i) to (iii), as the case may be; and

(ii) the matters notified pursuant to regulation 53(1)(a)(ii) or (b)(iv), as the case may be; and

(iii) the date it was so claimed; and

(b) in any case—

(i) the weekly rate of housing benefit awarded to the mover by authority A;

(ii) if any deduction was being made from that benefit in respect of non-dependants, pursuant to regulations 50 and 55, the amount of those deductions;

(iii) if any deduction was being made from that benefit in respect of a recoverable overpayment pursuant to regulation 83, the amount of those deductions;

(iv) the date on which his entitlement to housing benefit ceased;

(v) if an extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit) was made to the mover, the amount and date of any such payment; and

(vi) if no extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit) was made, why none was made.

(4) In this regulation “mover” and “second dwelling” shall have the meanings assigned to them in paragraph 10 of Schedule 7.

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Section 122E was inserted by section 3 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47).