SCHEDULE 4Housing costs element for renters

PART 3General provisions about calculation of amount of housing costs element for renters

Housing cost contributions

No deduction for housing cost contributions in respect of certain non-dependants16

1

No deduction is to be made under paragraph 13 in respect of any non-dependant who is a member of the renter's extended benefit unit to whom sub-paragraph (2) applies.

2

This sub-paragraph applies to—

a

a person who is under 21 years old;

b

a person in receipt of state pension credit;

c

a person in receipt of the care component of disability living allowance at the middle or highest rate;

d

a person in receipt of attendance allowance;

e

a person in receipt of the daily living component of personal independence payment;

f

a person who is entitled to a payment within paragraph (c), (d) or (e) but is not receiving it under, as the case may be—

i

regulation 8 of the Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991,

ii

regulation 6 of the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991,

iii

regulation 21 of the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982, or

iv

regulations under section 86 of the Act (payment of personal independence payment while a person is a hospital in-patient);

g

a person in receipt of carer's allowance;

h

a person who is a prisoner;

i

a person who is responsible for a child under 5 years old.

F1j

a person who is a member of the armed forces away on operations who—

i

is the son, daughter, step-son or step-daughter of a renter or joint renters, and

ii

resided with the renter or joint renters immediately before leaving to go on operations and intends to return to reside with the renter or joint renters at the end of the operations.