Temporary absence to try new accommodation of up to 13 weeks
8.—(1) This sub-paragraph applies to a claimant who enters residential accommodation—
(a)for the purpose of ascertaining whether the accommodation suits the claimant’s needs; and
(b)with the intention of returning to the accommodation which the claimant occupies as the claimant’s home (“the home accommodation”) in the event that the residential accommodation proves not to suit the claimant’s needs,
and while in the residential accommodation, the home accommodation is not let or sub-let to another person.
(2) A claimant to whom sub-paragraph (1) applies shall be treated as occupying the home accommodation during the period of absence, not exceeding 13 weeks in which the claimant is resident in the residential accommodation, but only where the total absence from the home accommodation does not exceed 52 consecutive weeks.