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SCHEDULE 6Extended payments of council tax benefit

PART 2

Calculation and payment of an extended payment

3.  Except in the case of a mover, the amount of the extended payment shall be equal to the amount of council tax benefit allowed to the claimant for the last benefit week before he ceased to be entitled to council tax benefit.

Movers

4.  In the case of a mover who claims an extended payment the relevant authority to whom the mover is liable to pay council tax in respect of the second dwelling shall, upon receiving the mover’s claim for an extended payment which meets the requirements of regulation 60, allow an extended payment, calculated in accordance with paragraph 5, to the mover.

Movers and extended payments

5.  In a case to which paragraph 4 applies—

(a)the maximum council tax benefit of the mover shall be the amount of the council tax calculated in accordance with regulation 57, save that no deduction shall be made in respect of non-dependants, other than any that fall to be taken into account pursuant to sub-paragraph (b);

(b)the extended payment shall be by way of a discharge to the value of such part of the liability to council tax for the period specified in regulation 60(6) less, in a case where the rebate to which paragraph 4 refers was subject to any deductions in respect of non-dependants pursuant to regulations 57(1) and 58, the amount of those deductions.