Regulation 10 Amendment of regulation 20 of the General RegulationsI1

For paragraph (1) of regulation 20 of the General Regulations (applicable amounts for persons in board and lodging accommodation and hostels) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“(1)

Subject to regulation 22 (reduction of applicable amounts) where—

(a)

the claimant lives in board and lodging accommodation or a hostel; or

(b)

if the claimant is a member of a family, he and the members of his family live in such accommodation,

his weekly applicable amount shall, except in a case to which regulation 21 (special cases) or Part II of Schedule 5 (persons to whom regulation 20 does not apply) applies, be calculated in accordance with Part I of that Schedule.

(1A)

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) claimant and the members of his family are to be taken as living in board and lodging accommodation or a hostel even during periods when one or more members of the family are temporarily absent from the accommodation but only if the claimant or his partner is living in the accommodation during any such period.”.