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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/schedule-6/paragraph-25",
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  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
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  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/25",
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  "number": "25",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the home following his estrangement or divorce from, or dissolution of his civil partnership with, his former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he ceased to occupy that dwelling or, where the dwelling is occupied as the home by the former partner who is a lone parent, for so long as it is so occupied.\n(2) In this paragraph “dwelling” includes any garage, garden and outbuildings, which were formerly occupied by the claimant as his home and any premises not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately, in particular, in Scotland, any croft land on which the dwelling is situated.",
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