SCHEDULE 8Matters to be included in decision notice
PART 4Awards where direct payments made to landlords
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Where a decision has been made under regulation 76 or 77 (circumstances in which payment is to be made, or may be made, direct to a landlord), the decision notice shall include a statement—
a
as to the amount of housing benefit which is to be paid direct to the landlord and the date from which it is to be paid; and
b
informing the landlord of the duty imposed upon him to notify the local authority of—
i
any change in circumstances which might affect the claimant's entitlement to housing benefit, or the amount of housing benefit payable in his case; and
ii
the kind of change of circumstances which is to be notified,
and the notice shall be sent both to the claimant and to the landlord; and
c
informing both landlords and claimants that where a payment of housing benefit is recoverable from a landlord and the recovery is made from housing benefit payable to the landlord to discharge (in whole or in part) an obligation owed to him by a claimant, then, in a case where that claimant is not the person on whose behalf the recoverable amount was paid, that obligation shall nonetheless be taken to be discharged by the amount so recovered.