{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-34.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1998/1506",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/34",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Determination of claims and reviews",
  "text": "(1) Regulations shall require a person who has claimed housing benefit to be notified of the determination of the claim.\n(2) Any such notification shall be given in such form as may be prescribed.\n(3) Where claims for housing benefit are made by, or in respect of, persons who have been entitled to a jobseeker's allowance, income support or state pension credit, regulations may require priority to be given, in prescribed circumstances, to those claims over other claims for housing benefit.\nPara. (4) rep. with saving by 2000 c. 4 (NI)\nPara. (5) rep. with saving by 2000 c. 4 (NI)",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by SR 1999/349, 350"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "prosp. in pt. certain functions transf. by 2002 c. 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "2002 c. 14 (NI)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nia/2010/13",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1506/article/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:59.445846+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."
}