# The Social Security (Care Homes and Independent Hospitals) Regulations 2005, Paragraph 9


In Schedule 2 (housing costs)—
(a) for sub-paragraph (13)(c) of paragraph 3 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home) substitute—
“(c) “residential accommodation” means accommodation which is a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital;”;
(b) in sub-paragraph (1)(b) in paragraph 4 (housing costs not met) for “in accommodation which is a residential care home or a nursing home except where he is in such accommodation” substitute “ living in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital except where he is living in such a home or hospital ”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2687/schedule/2/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-care-homes-and-independent-hospitals-regulations-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-9
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