PART 5Amount of benefit
F1Amount payable during extended payment period when an extended payment is payable pursuant to regulation 60 or 61 of the Council Tax Benefit RegulationsF141.
(1)
This regulation applies where—
(a)
a claimant became entitled to an extended payment pursuant to regulation 60 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 or an extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits) pursuant to regulation 61 of those Regulations; and
(b)
during the extended payment period, these Regulations become applicable to the claimant or the claimant’s partner in accordance with regulation 5 (persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit).
(2)
Where this regulation applies, the amount of the extended payment payable to a claimant for any week during the extended payment period shall be the higher of—
(a)
the amount of the extended payment payable in accordance with regulation 60B(1)(a) of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 or the extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits) payable in accordance with regulation 61B(1)(a) of those Regulations, as the case may be;
(b)
the amount of council tax benefit to which a claimant would be entitled under the general conditions of entitlement of these Regulations, if regulation 60 (extended payments) or regulation 61 (extended payments (qualifying contributory benefits)) of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 did not apply to the claimant; or
(c)
the amount of council tax which the claimant’s partner would be entitled to under the general conditions of entitlement of these Regulations, if regulation 60 or regulation 61 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 did not apply to the claimant.
(3)
Where this regulation applies, no amount of council tax benefit shall be payable by the appropriate authority during the extended payment period to a claimant’s partner under these Regulations for any week in the extended payment period.