# The Household Fuel Payments Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009, Paragraph 2: Eligibility


(1) A person is not eligible for a household fuel payment unless he is a qualifying person.
(2) A person is a qualifying person for the purposes of sub- paragraph (1) if he is a householder who was in receipt of :
(a) state pension credit (except where the recipient is resident in a nursing home or residential care home);
(b) income support and housing benefit;
(c) income support and a housing loan; or
(d) income support and both housing benefit and a housing loan.
on any one day during the qualifying week.
(3) Where a qualifying person is part of a couple, the other member of that couple shall not be treated as a qualifying person.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/70/schedule/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/household-fuel-payments-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/schedule/paragraph-2
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