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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-extended-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/285",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Extended Payments) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-extended-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
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  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (“the Housing Benefit Regulations”) and the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (“the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations”) so as to include new provision for extended payments.\nExtended payments are payments of housing benefit which are payable for a limited period in certain circumstances where a claimant or the claimant’s partner has ceased to be entitled to a qualifying income-related benefit or a qualifying contributory benefit.\nRegulation 2 amends the Housing Benefit Regulations. Regulation 2(4) relates to extended payments for those who come off a qualifying income-related benefit and substitutes regulations 70 to 70C for regulation 70 of the Housing Benefit Regulations. The new regulation 70 sets out when an extended payment of housing benefit is payable, regulation 70A provides the period during which the claimant will be entitled to the extended payment (known as the extended payment period), regulation 70B provides how the extended payment will be calculated and regulation 70C provides how the extended payment relates to the underlying housing benefit entitlement. Regulation 2(5) relates to equivalent extended payments for those who come off a qualifying contributory benefit and substitutes regulations 71 to 71C for regulation 71. Regulation 2(2), (3), (6) and (7) makes consequential amendments.\nRegulation 3 makes amendments to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations, equivalent to those made by regulation 2(5), for those who come off a qualifying contributory benefit and also makes consequential amendments.\nSections 32 and 33 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007, some of the enabling provisions under which these Regulations are made, were brought into operation for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations on 1st July 2008, and for all other purposes on 6th October 2008, by virtue of the Welfare Reform (2007 Act) (Commencement No. 5) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008 No. 276 (C. 14)). As these Regulations are made by virtue of, or are consequential upon, those sections and are made before the end of the period of 6 months of the coming into operation of those sections they are, accordingly, exempt, by virtue of section 150(5)(b) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, from prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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