Paragraph 9 Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006I1

United Kingdom

(1)

The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 M1 are amended in accordance with this paragraph.

(2)

In regulation 7 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home), in paragraph (18), in the definition of “prescribed area”, omit “(other than the United Kingdom)”.

(3)

In regulation 86 (recovery of overpayments from prescribed benefits), in paragraph (1)(c), omit “other than the United Kingdom”.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: S.I. 2006/214, amended by S.I. 2005/2904 (as amended by S.I. 2006/217) and 2016/624; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

Commencement

I1: Sch. para. 9 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(2)