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The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Abolition of Benefit Periods) Amendment Regulations 2004
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- 2004 No. 14
- PART 2
- Regulation 8
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Amendment of regulation 22 of the Housing Benefit Regulations and regulation 14 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations
8.—(1) In regulation 22(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (average weekly earnings of employed earners)—
(a)in paragraph (1)(b) the words “over the benefit period” shall be omitted; and
(b)for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted—
“Where the amount of a claimant’s earnings changes during an award the relevant authority shall estimate his average weekly earnings by reference to his likely earnings from the employment over such period as is appropriate in order that his average weekly earnings may be estimated accurately but the length of the period shall not in any case exceed 52 weeks.”.
(2) In regulation 14(2) of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations (average weekly earnings of employed earners)—
(a)in paragraph (1)(b) the words “over the benefit period” shall be omitted; and
(b)for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted—
“Where the amount of a claimant’s earnings changes during an award the relevant authority shall estimate his average weekly earnings by reference to his likely earnings from the employment over such period as is appropriate in order that his average weekly earnings may be estimated accurately but the length of the period shall not in any case exceed a year.”.
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