Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

6.—(1) Regulation 10 of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006(1) (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”);.

(1)

S.I. 2006/214; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2006/1026, 2006/3341, 2011/2425.