# The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, Paragraph 7

Extent: N.I.

(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), for the purposes of this Part, once a premium is applicable to a claimant under this Part, a person shall be treated as being in receipt of any benefit for—
(a) in the case of a benefit to which the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 applies, any period during which, apart from the provisions of those Regulations, he would be in receipt of that benefit; ...
(b) any period spent by a person in undertaking a course of training or instruction provided or arranged by the Department for Employment and Learning under sections 2 and 3 of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1945, or section 1 (1) of the 1950 Act or for any period during which he is in receipt of a training allowance; and
(c) in the case of carer support payment, any period during which, apart from regulation 16 of the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023, he would be in receipt of that benefit.
(2) For the purposes of the carer premium under paragraph 17, a person shall be treated as being in receipt of carer’s allowance by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(a) or carer support payment by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(c) only if and for so long as the person in respect of whose care the allowance or payment has been claimed remains in receipt of armed forces independence payment, attendance allowance , pension age disability payment, the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 72(3) of the Act , the care component of Scottish adult disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate in accordance with regulation 6(4) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025 , the care component of child disability payment at the highest or middle rate in accordance with regulation 11(5) of the DACYP Regulations , the daily living component of personal independence payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with Article 83(3) of the 2015 Order , or the daily living component of adult disability payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with regulation 5 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/405/schedule/4/part/III/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-4/part-III/paragraph-7
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