{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Eligible housing costs",
  "text": "(1) 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—\n(a) in the case of a rate rebate, the amount of his eligible rates determined in accordance with regulation 12(3); and\n(b) in the case of a rent rebate or allowance, the amount of his eligible rent determined in accordance with—\n(i) regulation 13A;\n(ia) regulations 13AA, A14 and B14;\n(ii) regulations 13B, 14, 14A and 14B;\n(iii) regulations 13C, 14C and 14D, or\n(iv) regulations 13 (rent) and 14 (restrictions on unreasonable payments) as set out in paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Consequential Provisions Regulations,\nwhichever is applicable in his case.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4), housing benefit shall not be payable in respect of payments made by a person on income support , 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.\n(3) 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—\n(a) outstanding arrears of any payment or charge; or\n(b) any other unpaid payment or charge,\nto which paragraphs (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.\n(4) Where a person who has been awarded housing benefit in respect of a dwelling becomes entitled to income support , 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.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 11(1)(b) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(4) of the amending Rule) by The Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/101), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 11(1)(b)(ia) inserted (20.2.2017) by The Housing Benefit (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/326), regs. 1(3), 5(3) (as amended by S.R. 2016/432, reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(2) substituted (27.10.2008) by The Housing Benefit (Employment and Support Allowance Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/378), regs. 1, 3(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(3) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(4) of the amending Rule) by The Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/101), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(4) substituted (27.10.2008) by The Housing Benefit (Employment and Support Allowance Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/378), regs. 1, 3(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in operation at 20.11.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/405/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:14.194536+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}