SCHEDULE 2Consequential amendments
Amendment of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 200118
1
The Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 200195 shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph.
2
For regulation 1(2), substitute—
2
In these Regulations—
“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006; and
“the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006.
3
In regulation 3(a) (circumstances in which discretionary housing payments may be made) for “Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit Regulations”, substitute “Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit Regulations or Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations”.
4
In regulation 4, for paragraph (a) (limit on the amount of the discretionary housing payment that may be made), substitute—
a
periodical payments in respect of the dwelling which a person occupies as his home, other than payments in respect of council tax, an amount equal to the amount of the aggregate of the payments specified in—
i
regulation 12(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations less the aggregate of the amounts referred to in regulations 12(3)(b)(i) to (iii) of those Regulations, calculated on a weekly basis in accordance with regulations 80 and 81 of those Regulations; or
ii
regulation 12(1) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations less the aggregate of the amounts referred to in regulations 12(3)(b)(i) to (iii) of those Regulations, calculated on a weekly basis in accordance with regulations 61 and 62 of those Regulations; or