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

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Extended payments (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit)

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44.—(1) Except in a case in which a person is in receipt of state pension credit, paragraph (2) shall apply where—

(a)a person ceases to be entitled to council tax benefit—

(i)in accordance with regulation 49 (date on which council tax benefit is to end where entitlement to severe disablement allowance or incapacity benefit ceases); and

(ii)the condition referred to in paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 is satisfied in his case; or

(b)a person ceases to be entitled to council tax benefit because he has vacated the dwelling of which he was a resident and the day on which he did so was either in the week in which he took up employment as an employed or self-employed earner, or in the preceding week, and—

(i)he ceased to be entitled to severe disablement allowance or incapacity benefit by reason of taking up employment as an employed or self-employed earner;

(ii)he had been entitled to and in receipt of severe disablement allowance, incapacity benefit or a combination of severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks;

(iii)he was not entitled to and in receipt of income support; and

(iv)the condition referred to in paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 is satisfied in his case.

(2) A person to whom paragraph (1) applies shall be treated as having made a claim under this regulation and his council tax benefit shall be determined in accordance with Schedule 5 and any award so determined shall be referred to in these Regulations as an “extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit)”.

(3) For the purposes of any payment pursuant to this regulation—

(a)except in a case to which paragraph 4(a) of Schedule 5 applies, the maximum council tax benefit of any person mentioned in paragraph (1) shall be determined in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 5;

(b)the maximum council tax benefit of any person to whom paragraph 4(a) of Schedule 5 applies shall be determined in accordance with paragraph 5 of that Schedule;

(c)except in a case to which paragraph (d) applies, any person who meets the requirements of paragraph (1) shall be treated as possessing the amount of income and the amount of capital that they possessed in the last week of the award of council tax benefit which has ceased as mentioned in paragraph (1); and

(d)any person whose maximum council tax benefit is determined in accordance with paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 shall be treated as possessing no income or capital.

(4) Regulations 52, 53 and 57 (claims, evidence and information) shall not apply to a claim pursuant to this regulation and, subject to regulation 40(5) (maximum council tax benefit), Part 6 (period of entitlement, changes of circumstances and increases for exceptional circumstances) shall not apply to any payment under it.

(5) In paragraph (1), references to a “person” include references to a person's partner and references to taking up employment include receiving remuneration for employment or an increased amount of remuneration for employment or engaging in employment for an increased number of hours.

(6) In a case where payment has been made under this regulation—

(a)the beneficiary shall be treated for the purpose of these Regulations as though he were entitled to and in receipt of council tax benefit—

(i)during the 4 weeks immediately following the last day of his entitlement to council tax benefit; or

(ii)until the date on which his liability for council tax ends,

whichever occurs first; and

(b)any claim for council tax benefit made by the beneficiary within the period which under sub-paragraph (a) applies in his case or the 4 weeks thereafter shall be treated as having been made in respect of a period beginning immediately after the end of his previous award of council tax benefit.

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