The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002

6.—(1) Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the home following his estrangement or divorce from his former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he ceased to occupy that dwelling or, where the dwelling is occupied as the home by the former partner who is a lone parent, for so long as it is so occupied.

(2) In this paragraph—

(a) “dwelling” includes any garage, garden and outbuildings, which were formerly occupied by the claimant as his home and any premises not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately, in particular, in Scotland, any croft land on which the dwelling is situated;

(b) “lone parent” means a person who has no partner and who is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child; and

(c) “child” means a person treated as a child for the purposes of Part IX of the 1992 Act(1).

(1)

See section 142(1) of the 1992 Act.