{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-bereavement-benefits-regulations-2000/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2239",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Amendment (Bereavement Benefits) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-bereavement-benefits-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.\n(2) In Schedule 2 (applicable amounts)—\n(a) in paragraph 4 , for the words “paragraphs 9\" there shall be substituted the words “ paragraphs 8A ”;\n(b) after paragraph 7 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“ Bereavement Premium\n8A (1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the condition is that the claimant—\n(a) had, as at 9th April 2001, attained the age of 55 but not the age of 60;\n(b) was in receipt of, but is no longer entitled to, a bereavement allowance under section 39B of the Contributions and Benefits Act in respect of the death of a spouse who died on or after 9th April 2001; and\n(c) is claiming housing benefit as a single claimant.\n(2) A premium under sub-paragraph (1) shall, except in a case to which sub-paragraph (4) applies, not be applicable in respect of a claimant who claims housing benefit more than 8 weeks after the last day on which he was entitled to a bereavement allowance.\n(3) Where a claimant to whom a premium under sub-paragraph (1) is applicable, ceases to be entitled to housing benefit or to be a single claimant, a premium under sub-paragraph (1) shall only again be applicable to that claimant where he claims housing benefit as a single claimant no more than 8 weeks after the date on which he ceased to be entitled to housing benefit or, as the case may be, to be a single claimant.\n(4) Where a premium under sub-paragraph (1) becomes applicable to a claimant, it shall again be applicable to that claimant where he claims housing benefit as a single claimant at the end of the benefit period in which it first became applicable and at the end of each subsequent benefit period provided, where he ceases to be a single claimant during the course of any benefit period, he does not cease to be a single claimant for more than 8 weeks.\n(5) For the purposes of this paragraph, where the claimant—\n(a) was entitled to council tax benefit at any time in the period of 8 weeks before becoming entitled or re-entitled to housing benefit; and\n(b) satisfied the conditions in respect of a bereavement premium under paragraph 8A of Schedule 1 to the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992,\nfor the purpose of establishing entitlement or re-entitlement for housing benefit, he shall be treated as satisfying the equivalent conditions for a bereavement premium under this paragraph.”;\n(c) immediately before sub-paragraph (2) in the table in paragraph 15 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph respectively in each column—\n“\n(1A)Bereavement Premium. c>\n(1A)£15.30.\n”.\n(3) In Schedule 4 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—\n(a) after paragraph 14, there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“\n14A Subject to paragraph 33, £15 of any—\n(a) widowed mother’s allowance paid pursuant to section 37 of the Contributions and Benefits Act;\n(b) widowed parent’s allowance paid pursuant to section 39A of the Contributions and Benefits Act.”;\n(b) in paragraph 33, for the words “and 14\" there shall be substituted the words “ , 14 and 14A ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 4, 5 revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Paragraph 4 was amended by S.I. 1990/1775 and 1996/1803."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2239/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:39:51.343569+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."
}