Regulation 2 Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

In regulation 40 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006^f1 (calculation of income other than earnings) after paragraph (4) insert—

“(4A)

An authority may modify this Part so as to provide for disregarding, in determining a person’s income (whether he is the occupier of a dwelling or any other person whose income falls to be aggregated with that of the occupier of the dwelling), the whole or any part of any payment made under article 14(1)(b) or 21(1)(a) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005^f2.”.