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Paragraph 5 Circumstances in which no amount of housing costs may be met

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

No amount may be met under the provisions of this Schedule—

(a)

in respect of housing benefit expenditure; or

(b)

where the claimant is in accommodation to which either regulation 19 (applicable amounts for persons in homes for persons in need or nursing homes), or 20 (applicable amounts for persons in board and lodging accommodation or hostels) applies, unless his absence from the dwelling occupied as his home in such accommodation is only temporary within the meaning of paragraph 4(8).