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SCHEDULE 6N.I.Housing Costs

General exclusions from [F1paragraph 9] N.I.

10.—(1) [F2Paragraph 9] shall not apply where—

(a)[F3the claimant or the claimant’s partner] has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit;

(b)the housing costs are payments, where the dwelling occupied as the home is a tent, in respect of the tent and the site on which it stands.

(2) In a case falling within sub-paragraph (1), the housing costs to be met are—

(a)where head (a) of that sub-paragraph applies, an amount—

(i)[F4determined in the manner set out in paragraph 11 by applying the standard rate to the eligible capital for the time being owing in connection with a loan which qualifies under paragraph 16 or 17, and]

(ii)equal to the payments which qualify under paragraph 18;

(b)where head (b) of that sub-paragraph applies, an amount equal to the payments which qualify under paragraph 18(1)(d).