7. Any premises occupied in whole or in part—
(a)by a partner or relative of a single applicant or any member of the family as the applicant’s home where that person has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit or is incapacitated;
(b)by the former partner of the applicant as the applicant’s home; but this provision is not to apply where the former partner is a person from whom the applicant is estranged or divorced or with whom the applicant had formed a civil partnership that has been dissolved.