Moving into accommodation following a stay in hospital or care home
This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum
17.—(1) The claimant is to be treated as having occupied accommodation before he or she moved into it where—
(a)the claimant has since moved in and, immediately before the move, the claimant was liable to make payments in respect of that accommodation; and
(b)the liability to make the payments arose while the claimant was a patient or accommodated in a care home (or, in the case of joint claimants, where both individuals were patients or were accommodated in a care home).
(2) No claimant may be treated as occupying the accommodation under this paragraph for more than one month.