PART 6Period of entitlement, changes of circumstances and increases for exceptional circumstances
Date on which entitlement is to begin48
1
Subject to paragraph (2), any person by whom or in respect of whom a claim for council tax benefit is made and is otherwise entitled to that benefit shall be entitled from the benefit week following the first day in respect of which that claim is made.
2
A claimant who is otherwise entitled to council tax benefit and becomes liable, for the first time, for a relevant authority's council tax in respect the dwelling of which he is a resident in the benefit week in which the first day in respect of which his claim was made falls, shall be so entitled from that benefit week.