Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 20066

1

Regulation 10 of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 200615 (persons from abroad) is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph (4A) for sub-paragraph (f) substitute—

f

a person who is treated as a worker for the purpose of the definition of “qualified person” in regulation 6(1) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 pursuant to—

i

regulation 6 of the Accession (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) Regulations 2006 (right of residence of a Bulgarian or Romanian who is an “accession State national subject to worker authorisation”), or

ii

regulation 5 of the Accession of Croatia (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) Regulations 2013 (right of residence of a Croatian who is an “accession State national subject to worker authorisation”);