Regulation 11 Eligible housing costsI1

Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, housing benefit shall be payable in respect of the payments specified in regulations 12(1) and 13(1) and a claimant’s maximum housing benefit shall be calculated under Part VIII by reference to—

Subject to paragraph (4), housing benefit shall not be payable in respect of payments made by a person on income support F3, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance whose applicable amount for that benefit includes an amount in respect of those payments.

Where any payment for which a person is liable in respect of a dwelling and which is specified in regulation 13(1), is increased on account of—

to which F4paragraphs (1) or (2) of that regulation or paragraph (2) of regulation 13A or Schedule 1 refer and which is or was formerly owed by him in respect of that or another dwelling, a rent rebate or, as the case may be, a rent allowance shall not be payable in respect of that increase.

Where a person who has been awarded housing benefit in respect of a dwelling becomes entitled to income support F5, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance and his applicable amount for the purpose of calculating his entitlement to that benefit includes an amount in respect of a payment made by him in respect of that dwelling, the payments made by him in respect of that dwelling shall continue to be eligible for housing benefit for a period of 4 benefit weeks beginning with the benefit week after the date on which he becomes entitled to income support , an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance.