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Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 5 para. 15(1A) words substituted by Social Security 2026 reg. 3(5)(a)
Sch. 5 para. 15(1A) words inserted by Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) 2026 reg. 2(4)(a)
Sch. 5 para. 15(2)-(5) words substituted by Social Security 2026 reg. 3(5)(b)
Sch. 5 para. 15(2)-(5) words substituted by Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) 2026 reg. 2(4)(b)
Sch. 5 para. 15(6) words substituted by Social Security 2026 reg. 3(5)(b)
Sch. 5 para. 15(6) words substituted by Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) 2026 reg. 2(4)(b)

Any premises occupied in whole or in part—

(a)

by a F1person who is a close relative, grandparent, grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece of the claimant or of his partner as his home where that person F2has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit or is incapacitated;

(b)

by the former partner of the claimant as his home; but this provision shall not apply where the former partner is a person from whom the claimant is estranged or divorced F3or with whom he had formed a civil partnership that has been dissolved.

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Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. V para. 4(a) substituted (4.10.2004) by The Social Security (Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2327), regs. 1(1)(a), 7(6)
F2: Words in Sch. V para. 4(a) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1488), regs. 1, 23(2)
F3: Words in Sch. V para. 4(b) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 35(5)(a) (with art. 3)