Regulation 18 Amendment of regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) Regulations 1988

for sub-paragraph (c) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(c)

where a claimant’s claim for income support has been disallowed, the reason for the disallowance;”;

in sub-paragraph (e) there shall be added at the end the words—

“and the date on which the payment of income support ceased or is to cease;”;

for sub-paragraph (g) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs—

“(g)

the name, date of birth and address of any claimant who is in receipt of income support and of any partner of his;

(h)

the national insurance number in respect of any claimant who is in receipt of income support and of any partner of his;

(i)

where a claimant or any partner of his is in receipt of income support and becomes liable for the first time to make payments in respect of the dwelling which he occupies as his home, the date on which a claim for housing benefit by the claimant or his partner is received by the appropriate DSS office;

(j)

where—

(i)

a claimant in receipt of income support or any partner of his reports to an appropriate DSS office that another person is residing or has ceased to reside with the claimant, and

(ii)

that person is a non-dependent for the purposes of regulation 3 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (definition of non-dependant)^f2, the name and date of birth of that person;

(k)

any further information required for the purpose of—

(i)

the calculation and recovery of overpayments of housing benefit,

(ii)

the investigation and prevention of offences relating to housing benefit,

(iii)

any proceedings for an offence under the benefit Acts relating to housing benefit.”.