The Housing Benefit (Extended Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Amendment of Schedule 5A to the principal Regulations

6.—(1) Schedule 5A to the principal Regulations (extended payments of housing benefit) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).

(2) In paragraph 2(1)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a)—

(i) after “claimant” there shall be inserted “or his partner”;

(ii) after “allowance” there shall be inserted “or that the claimant and his partner were entitled to and in receipt of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance”;

(b) sub-paragraph (c)(2) shall be omitted;

(c) in sub-paragraph (e)(3)—

(i) the words “in any of, or any combination of, the circumstances set out in sub-paragraph (c)” shall be omitted, and

(ii) in head (i) “and” where it last appears shall be omitted;

(iii) at the end of head (ii) there shall be added “and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, a reference to the claimant being entitled to and in receipt of a jobseeker’s allowance shall include a reference to the claimant and his partner being entitled to and in receipt of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance”;

(iv) at the end there shall be added the following—

“and

(iii) references to the claimant include references to his partner.”.

(3) For paragraph 3 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“3.   The conditions prescribed in this paragraph are that the claimant or the claimant’s partner—

(a) notifies either the designated office or the appropriate office that he or his partner—

(i) has commenced, or is about to commence, remunerative work, or

(ii) has commenced, or is about to commence, receiving remuneration for work or an increased amount of remuneration for work,

so that entitlement to income support or to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance ceases and that work, or as the case may be, remuneration, is expected to last 5 weeks or more, and

(b) makes the notification no later than 4 weeks after the day on which the claimant or his partner first undertakes remunerative work referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(i) or first receives remuneration for the work or an increased amount of remuneration for the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(ii).”.

(4) In paragraph 4 (calculation and payment of an extended payment)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (4)(4), at the beginning there shall be inserted “Subject to sub-paragraph (5)”, and

(b) after sub-paragraph (4) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(5) No extended payment shall be payable for a week which is a rent and rate-free period for the purposes of regulation 70(1).”.

(5) In paragraph 13(1)(5) (interpretation), the definition of “relevant trainee” shall be omitted.

(1)

Paragraph 2 was amended by regulation 22(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 334, regulation 7 of S.R. 1998 No. 112 and regulation 4(5)(a) of S.R. 1999 No. 381

(2)

Sub-paragraph (c) was amended by regulation 22(a)(ii) of S.R. 1996 No. 334, regulation 7 of S.R. 1998 No. 112 and regulation 4(5)(a) of S.R. 1999 No. 381

(3)

Sub-paragraph (e) was substituted by regulation 22(a)(iv) of S.R. 1996 No. 334

(4)

Sub-paragraph (4) was amended by regulation 4(5)(b)(ii) of S.R. 1999 No. 381

(5)

Paragraph 13 was renumbered 13(1) by regulation 4(5)(e) of S.R. 1999 No. 381