Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 68 of the Housing Benefit Regulations

in paragraph (1), for the words “to (6)” there shall be substituted the words “to (7)”, and

after paragraph (6)^f1 there shall be inserted the following new paragraph–

“(7)

Without prejudice to paragraph (6), where the change of circumstances is the payment of income, or arrears of income, in respect of a past period, the change of circumstances shall take effect from the first day on which such income, had it been timeously paid in that period at intervals appropriate to that income, would have fallen to be taken into account for the purposes of these Regulations.”.