Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for State Pension Credit) Regulations 2006 E+W+S

26.—(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for State Pension Credit) Regulations 2006(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 29(1)(j) (meaning of income), for paragraph (xiii) substitute—

“(xiii) bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014;”.

(3) In Part 1 of Schedule 6 (capital to be disregarded generally)(2)—

(a) in paragraph 21(2), after paragraph (o) insert—

“(p) bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014.”; and

(b) after paragraph 26G, insert—

“26H.   A payment of bereavement support payment in respect of the rate set out in regulation 3(2) or (5) of the Bereavement Support Payment Regulations 2017 (rate of bereavement support payment), but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment.”.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 26 in force at 6.4.2017 in accordance with art. 1(2), 2, 3

(1)

S.I. 2006/214.

(2)

Paragraph 21(2)(o) of Schedule 6 was inserted by S.I. 2013/630 and paragraph 26G was inserted by S.I. 2016/732.