The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997

Housing benefit: circumstances in which payment is to be made to a landlord

12.  In regulation 93 of the Housing Benefit Regulations(1) (circumstances in which payment is to be made to a landlord)—

(a) after “93” there shall be inserted “—(1)”;

(b) after the words “Subject to” there shall be inserted the words “paragraph (2) and”;

(c) at the end there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(2) Any payment of rent allowance made to a landlord pursuant to this regulation or to regulation 94 (circumstances in which payment may be made to a landlord) shall be to discharge, in whole or in part, the liability of the claimant to pay rent to that landlord in respect of the dwelling concerned, except in so far as—

(a) the claimant had no entitlement to the whole or part of that rent allowance so paid to his landlord; and

(b) the overpayment of rent allowance resulting was recovered in whole or in part from that landlord.”.

(1)

Regulation 93 was amended by S.I. 1990/546 and 1996/2432.