Regulation 2 Amendment of Housing Benefit and (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations

In regulation 8 of the Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 M1 (date from which a decision superseding an earlier decision takes effect) after paragraph (14) add—

“(15)

A decision to which regulation 7A(2) applies shall take effect—

(a)

from 1st April in a case where the claimant's weekly amount of eligible rent falls to be calculated in accordance with regulation 78(2)(b) or (c) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, regulation 59(2)(b) or (c) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations;

(b)

in any other case, from the first Monday in April.”.