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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/schedule-6/paragraph-9A",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/213",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/9A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A payment made to rectify, or to compensate for, an error made by an officer of the Department for Work and Pensions which was not caused or materially contributed to by any person outside the Department and which prevented or delayed an assessment of the claimant’s entitlement to contributory employment and support allowance but, subject to sub-paragraph (2), only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of the receipt of the payment.\n(2) In a case where the amount of such payment is £5,000 or more, sub-paragraph (1) shall have effect in relation to the payment either for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt, or, if the amount is received in its entirety during the award of housing benefit, for the remainder of that award if that is a longer period.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), “contributory employment and support allowance” means an allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act as amended by the provisions of Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the 2012 Act that remove references to an income-related allowance.\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), “the award of housing benefit” has the meaning in paragraph 9(3) of this Schedule except that “the relevant sum” means the payment to be disregarded by this paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 9A inserted (15.7.2020) by The Social Security (Income and Capital) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/618), regs. 1, 5(12)(a)"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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