# The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003, Paragraph 6

Extent: N.I.

(1) Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the home following his estrangement or divorce from , or dissolution of his civil partnership with, his former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he ceased to occupy that dwelling or, where the dwelling is occupied as the home by the former partner who is a lone parent, for so long as it is so occupied.
(2) In this paragraph “dwelling” means the dwelling occupied as the home formerly so occupied by the claimant.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/28/schedule/5/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-5/paragraph-6
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