Regulation 8 Amendments to the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

(1)

The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 31(8)(k)^f2 (treatment of child care charges)—

(a)

after “by a foster parent” insert “or kinship carer”;

(b)

for “Fostering of Children (Scotland) Regulations 1996” substitute “Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009”;

(c)

after “is fostering” insert “or kinship carer is looking after”.

(3)

For regulation 38(2)(b)(ii) (earnings of self-employed earners), substitute—

“(ii)
with whom a local authority foster a child under the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 or who is a kinship carer under those Regulations;” .

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2006/214.
f2: Inserted by S.I. 2009/1848.