UK Statutory Instrument SI 2006/214 United Kingdom

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

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s.067 Evidence and information Regulated
  • Provide evidence and information for your Housing Benefit claimAny Person
s.078 Payment on death of the person entitled Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Local authority must pay housing benefit to personal representative or next of kin on death of claimantLocal authority
125 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001 Citation and commencement
s.002 Interpretation
s.003 Definition of non-dependant
s.004 Cases in which section 1(1A) of the Administration Act is disapplied
s.005 Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit
s.006 Remunerative work
s.007 Circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home
s.008 Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling
s.009 Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as not liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling
s.010 Persons from abroad
s.011 Eligible housing costs
s.012 Rent
s.012 Eligible rent
s.012 Eligible rent and maximum rent
s.012 Eligible rent and maximum rent ( LHA )
s.012 Transitional protection – larger properties
s.012 Transitional protection – reduction in LHA
s.013 Maximum rent
s.013 When a maximum rent ( LHA ) is to be determined
s.013 Determination of a maximum rent (LHA)
s.013 Publication of local housing allowances
s.013 Protection on death and 13 week protection
s.013 Change in reckonable rent
s.014 Requirement to refer to rent officers
s.015 Applications to the rent officer for redeterminations
s.016 Application for a redetermination by a rent officer
s.017 Substitute determinations or substitute redeterminations
s.018 Application of provisions to substitute determinations or substitute redeterminations
s.018 Amended determinations
s.019 Persons of prescribed description
s.020 Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another
s.021 Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household
s.022 Applicable amounts
s.023 Calculation of income and capital of members of claimant's family and of a polygamous marriage
s.024 Circumstances in which income of non-dependant is to be treated as claimant's
s.025 Calculation of income and capital
s.026 Claimant in receipt of guarantee credit
s.027 Calculation of claimant's income and capital in savings credit only cases
s.028 Calculation of income and capital where state pension credit is not payable
s.029 Meaning of “income”
s.030 Calculation of income on a weekly basis
s.031 Treatment of child care charges
s.032 Calculation of average weekly income from tax credits
s.033 Calculation of weekly income
s.034 Disregard of changes in tax, contributions etc
s.035 Earnings of employed earners
s.036 Calculation of net earnings of employed earners
s.037 Calculation of earnings of self-employed earners
s.038 Earnings of self-employed earners
s.039 Calculation of net profit of self-employed earners
s.040 Deduction of tax and contributions of self-employed earners
s.041 Notional income
s.042 Income paid to third parties
s.043 Capital limit
s.044 Calculation of capital
s.045 Calculation of capital in the United Kingdom
s.046 Calculation of capital outside the United Kingdom
s.047 Notional capital
s.048 Diminishing notional capital rule
s.049 Capital jointly held
s.050 Maximum housing benefit
s.051 Housing benefit tapers
s.052 Amount payable during extended payment period when an extended payment is payable pursuant to regulation 72 or 73 of the Housing Benefit Regulations
s.053 Extended payments (qualifying contributory benefits)
s.053 Duration of extended payment period (qualifying contributory benefits)
s.053 Amount of extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits)
s.053 Extended payments (qualifying contributory benefits) – movers
s.053 Relationship between extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits) and entitlement to housing benefit under the general conditions of entitlement
s.054 Continuing payments where state pension credit claimed
s.055 Non-dependant deductions
s.056 Minimum housing benefit
s.057 Date on which entitlement is to commence
s.058 Date on which housing benefit is to end where entitlement to severe disablement allowance or incapacity benefit ceases
s.059 Date on which change of circumstances is to take effect
s.060 Change of circumstances where state pension credit payable
s.061 Calculation of weekly amounts
s.062 Rent free periods
s.063 Who may claim
s.064 Time and manner in which claims are to be made
s.064 Electronic claims for benefit
s.065 Date of claim where claim sent or delivered to a gateway office
s.066 Date of claim where claim sent or delivered to an office of a designated authority
s.068 Amendment and withdrawal of claim
s.069 Duty to notify changes of circumstances
s.069 Notice of changes of circumstances given electronically
s.069 Alternative means of notifying changes of circumstances
s.070 Decisions by a relevant authority
s.071 Notification of decision
s.072 Time and manner of payment
s.072 Cases in which payments to a housing authority are to take the form of a rent allowance
s.073 Frequency of payment of a rent allowance
s.074 Payment on account of a rent allowance
s.075 Payment to be made to a person entitled
s.076 Circumstances in which payment is to be made to a landlord
s.077 Circumstances in which payment may be made to a landlord
s.079 Offsetting
s.080 Meaning of overpayment
s.081 Recoverable overpayments
s.082 Person from whom recovery may be sought
s.083 Method of recovery
s.084 Diminution of capital
s.085 Sums to be deducted in calculating recoverable overpayments
s.085 Sums to be deducted in calculating recoverable overpayments where the claimant has changed dwelling
s.086 Recovery of overpayments from prescribed benefits
s.087 Prescribed benefits
s.087 Recovery by deduction from earnings
s.088 Restrictions on recovery of rent and consequent notifications
s.089 Interpretation
s.090 Collection of information
s.090 Verifying information
s.091 Recording and holding information
s.092 Forwarding of information
s.093 Request for information
s.094 Interpretation
s.095 Evidence and information required by rent officers
s.095 Information to be provided to rent officers
s.096 Information to be supplied by an authority to another authority
s.097 Supply of information – extended payments (qualifying contributory benefits)
s.098 Requiring information from landlords and agents
s.099 Circumstances for requiring information
s.100 Relevant information
s.101 Manner of supply of information
s.102 Criminal offence
s.102 Supply of benefit administration information between authorities
s.103 Modifications in respect of pathfinder authorities
Schedules

Schedules

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152 other schedules
s.sch001 Ineligible service charges
s.sch001 Amount ineligible for meals
s.sch001 Amount of ineligible charges
s.sch001 Excessive service costs
s.sch001 A service charge for fuel except a charge in respect...
s.sch001 (1) Where a charge is ineligible to be met by...
s.sch001 (1) Where rent is payable other than weekly, any amount...
s.sch001 In this Schedule— “communal areas” mean areas (other than rooms)...
s.sch002 An excluded tenancy is any tenancy to which any of...
s.sch002 This paragraph applies to a tenancy of a housing action...
s.sch002 (1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) this paragraph applies...
s.sch002 This paragraph applies to a shared ownership tenancy.
s.sch002 In this Schedule, “rent” shall be construed in accordance with...
s.sch002 (1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), where a rent...
s.sch002 (1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (1A) and (2) , this paragraph...
s.sch002 This paragraph applies to a tenancy entered into before—
s.sch002 This paragraph applies to a regulated tenancy within the meaning...
s.sch002 This paragraph applies to a housing association tenancy which—
s.sch002 This paragraph applies to a protected occupancy or statutory tenancy...
s.sch002 This paragraph applies to a tenancy at a low rent...
s.sch002 This paragraph applies to a tenancy of any dwelling which...
s.sch003 The amount specified in column (2) below in respect of...
s.sch003 Persons in receipt of concessionary payments
s.sch003 Person in receipt of benefit
s.sch003 Premium Amount (1) Severe Disability Premium (1)
s.sch003 (1) The amounts specified in column (2) below in respect...
s.sch003 (1) The amount for the purposes of regulations 22(1)(c) and...
s.sch003 The premiums specified in Part 4 shall, for the purposes...
s.sch003 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), for the purposes of this...
s.sch003 Severe disability premium
s.sch003 Enhanced disability premium
s.sch003 Disabled child premium
s.sch003 Carer premium
s.sch004 Where two or more of paragraphs 2 to 5 apply...
s.sch004 Where a payment of earnings is made in a currency...
s.sch004 In a case where a claimant is a lone parent,...
s.sch004 (1) In a case of earnings from any employment or...
s.sch004 (1) If the claimant or, if he has a partner,...
s.sch004 (1) £20 is disregarded if the claimant or, if he...
s.sch004 (1) Where— (a) the claimant (or if the claimant is...
s.sch004 Any amount or the balance of any amount which would...
s.sch004 Except where the claimant or his partner qualifies for a...
s.sch004 Any earnings, other than earnings referred to in regulation 33(8)(b)...
s.sch004 (1) In a case where the claimant is a person...
s.sch005 In addition to any sum which falls to be disregarded...
s.sch005 If the claimant— (a) owns the freehold or leasehold interest...
s.sch005 Where a claimant receives income under an annuity purchased with...
s.sch005 (1) Any payment, other than a payment to which sub-paragraph...
s.sch005 Any increase in pension or allowance under Part 2 or...
s.sch005 Any payment ordered by a court to be made to...
s.sch005 Periodic payments made to the claimant or the claimant's partner...
s.sch005 Any income which is payable outside the United Kingdom for...
s.sch005 Any banking charges or commission payable in converting to Sterling...
s.sch005 Where the claimant makes a parental contribution in respect of...
s.sch005 (1) Where the claimant is the parent of a student...
s.sch005 The whole of any amount included in a pension to...
s.sch005 (1) Where a claimant’s family includes at least one child...
s.sch005 Except in a case which falls under paragraph 9 of...
s.sch005 Except in the case of income from capital specified in...
s.sch005 Any special war widows payment made under—
s.sch005 Where the total value of any capital specified in Part...
s.sch005 Any amount of carer support payment that is in excess...
s.sch005 Any mobility supplement under article 20 of the Naval, Military...
s.sch005 Any supplementary pension under article 23(2) of the Naval, Military...
s.sch005 In the case of a pension awarded at the supplementary...
s.sch005 (1) Any payment which is— (a) made under any of...
s.sch005 £15 of any widowed parent's allowance to which the claimant...
s.sch005 £15 of any widowed mother's allowance to which the claimant...
s.sch005 Where the claimant occupies a dwelling as his home and...
s.sch006 Any premises acquired for occupation by the claimant which he...
s.sch006 The assets of any business owned in whole or in...
s.sch006 The surrender value of any policy of life insurance.
s.sch006 The value of any funeral plan contract; and for this...
s.sch006 Where an ex-gratia payment has been made by the Secretary...
s.sch006 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the amount of any trust...
s.sch006 The amount of any payment, other than a war pension,...
s.sch006 (1) Any payment made under or by—
s.sch006 (1) An amount equal to the amount of any payment...
s.sch006 Any amount specified in paragraphs 19, 20, 21 or 26B...
s.sch006 Amounts paid under a policy of insurance in connection with...
s.sch006 Any premises which the claimant intends to occupy as his...
s.sch006 So much of any amounts paid to the claimant or...
s.sch006 (1) Subject to paragraph 22 any amount paid—
s.sch006 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), any payment of £5,000 or...
s.sch006 Any payment of a widowed parent’s allowance made pursuant to...
s.sch006 Where a capital asset is held in a currency other...
s.sch006 The value of the right to receive income from an...
s.sch006 Capital to be disregarded
s.sch006 The dwelling occupied as the home; but only one dwelling...
s.sch006 Where a person elects to be entitled to a lump...
s.sch006 Where a person chooses a lump sum under section 8(2)...
s.sch006 Any arrears of supplementary pension which is disregarded under paragraph...
s.sch006 Any payment made under Part 8A of the Act (entitlement...
s.sch006 Any payments made ...— (a) by virtue of regulations made...
s.sch006 Any payment in consequence of a reduction of council tax...
s.sch006 Any payments to a claimant made under section 49 of...
s.sch006 (1) Any payment made by a local authority in accordance...
s.sch006 (1) A payment of bereavement support payment in respect of...
s.sch006 Any payment made under or by a trust, established for...
s.sch006 Any sum paid by means of assistance in accordance with...
s.sch006 Any sum paid by means of winter heating assistance in...
s.sch006 The value of the right to receive any income under...
s.sch006 The value of the right to receive any rent except...
s.sch006 The value of the right to receive any income under...
s.sch006 Any premises which the claimant intends to occupy as his...
s.sch006 Where property is held under a trust, other than—
s.sch006 Any premises occupied in whole or in part—
s.sch006 Any future interest in property of any kind, other than...
s.sch006 Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly...
s.sch006 Any premises where the claimant is taking reasonable steps to...
s.sch006 All personal possessions.
s.sch006 The assets of any business owned in whole or in...
s.sch007 Condition for an extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit)
s.sch007 Interpretation
s.sch007 Calculation and payment of an extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit)
s.sch007 Movers
s.sch007 Movers and rent allowances.
s.sch007 Movers and rent rebates
s.sch007 Movers and extended payments (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit)
s.sch007 Maximum housing benefit
s.sch007 Movers with two homes
s.sch007 Adjustment of entitlement in respect of an extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit)
s.sch008 The statement of matters to be included in any decision...
s.sch008 Where a person is not on state pension credit but...
s.sch008 Where a decision has been made under regulation 76 or...
s.sch008 In this Schedule, “landlord” has the same meaning as in...
s.sch008 Where an authority makes a decision under regulation 24 (circumstances...
s.sch008 Where a person is not awarded housing benefit—
s.sch008 (1) Where the appropriate authority makes a decision that there...
s.sch008 Every decision notice shall include a statement as to the...
s.sch008 Every decision notice shall include a statement as to the...
s.sch008 Every decision notice following an application for a revision in...
s.sch008 Every decision notice following an application for a revision in...
s.sch008 An authority may include in the decision notice any other...
s.sch008 Parts 2, 3 and 6 of this Schedule shall apply...
s.sch008 Where a decision notice is given following a revision of...
s.sch008 (1) Where a person on state pension credit is awarded...
s.sch009 These Regulations shall apply to former pathfinder authorities subject to...
s.sch009 Amendment of regulation 2
s.sch009 Amendment of regulation 11
s.sch009 Amendment of regulation 12B
s.sch009 Amendment of regulation 12D
s.sch009 Insertion of regulations 12E to 12K
s.sch009 Amendment of regulation 13C
s.sch009 Amendment of regulation 13D
s.sch010 Interpretation
s.sch010 Conditions for the use of electronic communication
s.sch010 Use of intermediaries
s.sch010 Effect of delivering information by means of electronic communication
s.sch010 Proof of identity of sender or recipient of information
s.sch010 Proof of delivery of information
s.sch010 Proof of content of information

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