The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

Information to be supplied by an authority to another authority

115.—(1) For the purposes of section 128A of the Administration Act(1) (duty of an authority to disclose information to another authority) the circumstances in which information is to be disclosed are prescribed in paragraph (2) and the prescribed information is described in paragraph (3).

(2) The circumstances prescribed in this paragraph are, where—

(a) there is a mover who is or was in receipt of housing benefit from local authority “A”;

(b) either his second dwelling is within the area of another authority “B” or he is liable or treated as liable to make payments in respect of his second dwelling to housing authority B; and

(c) either—

(i) the extended payment is claimed from authority A; or

(ii) the extended payment is claimed from authority B, who then requests the prescribed information from authority A,

authority A shall disclose to authority B the information prescribed in paragraph (3).

(3) The information to be disclosed is—

(a) in a case where that extended payment was claimed from authority A, details relevant to that claim of—

(i) the matters certified pursuant to regulation 72 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 7;

(ii) the matters notified pursuant to regulation 72 and paragraph 2 of that Schedule;

(iii) the date it was so claimed;

(b) in the case of a person to whom regulation 6(5) of the Income Support Regulations(2) (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies—

(i) the date on which he was first engaged in the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 6(5) of those Regulations; and

(ii) the date on which his entitlement to income support ceased or was expected to cease; and

(c) in any case—

(i) the weekly rate of housing benefit awarded to the mover by authority A;

(ii) if any deduction was being made from that benefit in respect of non-dependants, pursuant to regulations 70 and 74, the amount of those deductions;

(iii) if any deduction was being made from that benefit in respect of a recoverable overpayment pursuant to regulation 102 (method of recovery), the amount of those deductions;

(iv) the date on which his entitlement to housing benefit ceased;

(v) if an extended payment was made to the mover, the amount and date of any such payment; and

(vi) if no extended payment was made, why none was made.

(4) In this regulation, “the relevant day” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 11 of Schedule 7.

(1)

Section 128A was inserted by section 28(2) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18).

(2)

S.I. 1987/1967; the relevant amending Instrument is S.I. 2001/488.