Persons in homes for persons in need. nursing homes, board and lodging accommodation or hostels who become patients
16. A claimant to whom regulation 19 applies immediately before he or a member of his family became a patient where—
(a)he or any member of his family has been a patient for a period of 6 weeks or less and the claimant—
(i)continues to be liable to meet the weekly charge for the accommodation without reduction in respect of himself or that member of his family who is a patient,