The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

Movers and rent rebates

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5.  Where, in the case of a mover—

(a)his housing benefit was in the form of a rent rebate; and

(b)he claims an extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit),

the authority in which the second dwelling is situated, or as the case may be, where the mover’s liability to make payments in respect of the second dwelling is to a housing authority, that housing authority, shall upon receiving the mover’s claim for an extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit), which meets the requirements of regulation 73(1), make an extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit), calculated in accordance with paragraph 6, to that mover.