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11. This Part applies to UC claimants.
12.—(1) Subject to the following paragraphs of this Part, the accommodation which the claimant occupies as the claimant’s home is the accommodation which the claimant normally occupies the home.
(2) Where the claimant occupies more than one dwelling, in determining whether accommodation is the accommodation normally occupied as the home for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), regard is to be had to all the circumstances including (among other things) any persons with whom the claimant occupies each dwelling.
(3) Where accommodation which a claimant occupies as the claimant’s home is situated on or pertains to a croft, croft land used for the purposes of the accommodation is to be treated as included in the accommodation.
13.—(1) Where a claimant—
(a)is required to move into accommodation (“the other accommodation”) on account of essential repairs being carried out to the accommodation the claimant occupies as the claimant’s home (“the home accommodation”);
(b)intends to return to the home accommodation; and
(c)is liable to make owner-occupier payments in respect of either the other accommodation or the home accommodation (but not both),
the claimant is to be treated as occupying as the claimant’s home the accommodation in respect of which the owner-occupier payments are made.
14.—(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where—
(a)a claimant has moved into accommodation (“the new accommodation”) and, immediately before the move, was liable to make owner-occupier payments in respect of the new accommodation; and
(b)there was a delay in moving in to adapt the new accommodation in order to meet the needs of a disabled person.
(2) The claimant is to be treated as occupying both the new accommodation and the accommodation from which the move was made (“the old accommodation”) if—
(a)immediately before the move, the claimant was receiving loan payments or, in the case of an existing claimant, a qualifying benefit which includes an amount for owner-occupier payments, in respect of the old accommodation; and
(b)the delay in moving into the new accommodation was reasonable.
(3) A person is disabled under this Part if the person is—
(a)a claimant or any child or qualifying young person for whom the claimant is responsible; and
(b)in receipt of—
(i)the care component of disability living allowance at the middle or highest rate;
(ii)attendance allowance; or
(iii)the daily living component of personal independence payment.
(4) No claimant may be treated as occupying both the old accommodation and the new accommodation under this paragraph for more than one month.
15.—(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where—
(a)a claimant is occupying accommodation (“the other accommodation”) other than the accommodation which the claimant occupies as the claimant’s home (“the home accommodation”);
(b)it is unreasonable to expect the claimant to return to the home accommodation on account of the claimant’s reasonable fear of violence in the home, or by a former partner, against the claimant or any child or qualifying young person for whom the claimant is responsible; and
(c)the claimant intends to return to the home accommodation.
(2) The claimant is to be treated as occupying both the home accommodation and the other accommodation as the claimant’s home if—
(a)the claimant is liable to make payments in respect of both the other accommodation and the home accommodation; and
(b)it is reasonable to make loan payments in respect of both the home accommodation and the other accommodation.
(3) Where the claimant is liable to make payments in respect of one accommodation only, the claimant is to be treated as occupying that accommodation as the claimant’s home but only if it is reasonable to make loan payments in respect of that accommodation.
(4) No claimant may be treated as occupying both the home accommodation and the other accommodation under this paragraph for more than 12 months.
16.—(1) The claimant is to be treated as having occupied accommodation before the claimant moved into it where—
(a)the claimant has since moved in and, immediately before the move, the claimant is liable to make payments in respect of that accommodation;
(b)there was a delay in moving in that was necessary to enable the accommodation to be adapted to meet the needs of a disabled person; and
(c)it was reasonable to delay moving in.
(2) No claimant may be treated as occupying accommodation under this paragraph for more than one month.
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.
18.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a claimant is to be treated as no longer occupying accommodation from which the claimant is temporarily absent where the absence exceeds, or is expected to exceed, 6 months.
(2) Where a claimant who falls within [F1paragraph 15] is temporarily absent from the relevant accommodation, the claimant is to be treated as no longer occupying that accommodation where the absence exceeds, or is expected to exceed, 12 months.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 3 para. 18(2) substituted (6.4.2018) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/307), regs. 1(2), 2(16)
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