3 Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations
1 The Housing Benefit Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
2 In regulation 4(5) (remunerative work), after the words “income support”, there shall be inserted “, state pension credit”.
Regulation 4(5) was amended by regulation 3 of S.R. 1996 No. 334
3 In regulation 63 (non-dependant deductions) –
(a) in paragraph (7), after sub-paragraph (d), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph –

“(dd) he is a full-time student and the claimant or his partner has attained the age of 65, or”

;
(b) in paragraph (8), after sub-paragraph (b), there shall be added the following sub-paragraph –

“(c) a rate rebate in respect of a non-dependant who is on state pension credit and would not be treated as being in remunerative work, if they were not in receipt of that benefit.”

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