Regulation 18 Circumstances where housing benefit and council tax benefit is payable
Regulation 17 shall not apply and housing benefit or, as the case may be, council tax benefit shall be payable to an offender or to an offender’s family member—
(a)
where the offender is the claimant, he is entitled to either of those benefits during the disqualification period;
(b)
where the offender’s family member is the claimant, he is entitled to either of those benefits during the relevant period,
and the claimant is, at the same time, also entitled to income support or to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance.