SCHEDULE 3 ELIGIBLE HOUSING COSTS
Conditions relating to eligible housing costs4
1
Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph the housing costs referred to in this Schedule shall be included as housing costs only where—
a
they are incurred in relation to the parent’s home;
b
the parent or, if he is one of a family, he or a member of his family, is responsible for those costs; and
c
the liability to meet those costs is to a person other than a member of the same household.
2
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b) a parent shall be treated as responsible for housing costs where—
a
because the person liable to meet those costs is not doing so, he has to meet those costs in order to continue to live in the home and either he was formerly the partner of the person liable, or he is some other person whom it is reasonable to treat as liable to meet those costs; or
b
he pays a share of those costs in a case where—
i
he is living in a household with other persons;
ii
those other persons include persons who are not close relatives of his or his partner;
iii
a person who is not such a close relative is responsible for those costs under the preceding provisions of this paragraph or has an equivalent responsibility for housing expenditure; and
iv
it is reasonable in the circumstances to treat him as sharing that responsibility.