(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), where it is determined that the claimant is entitled to housing benefit in accordance with regulation 7B and this Schedule, payment of the amount due shall be made within 14 days of the date of that determination.
(2) The appropriate authority in respect of a claim to which this Schedule applies is made, shall be solely responsible for the payment of any housing benefit to which the claimant is entitled for the relevant period.
(3) Regulation 91 (payment on account of a rent allowance) shall not have effect with respect to any payment to which a claimant is entitled under regulation 7B.
(4) Regulations 93 and 94 (circumstances in which payment of benefit will be made to a landlord) shall not have effect with respect to a payment to which this Schedule applies but where —
(a) a landlord shows that, for the whole or any part of the relevant period for which housing benefit in the form of a rent allowance has been awarded, no payment of rent has been made;
(b) information is provided to show the rent that remains due;
(c) the claimant has been notified that a payment to the landlord may be made; and
(d) the appropriate authority, having taken account of any representations made by the claimant with respect to such a payment being made, consider that it is reasonable that the benefit or part of the benefit due should be paid to the landlord,
any benefit to which the claimant is entitled under regulation 7B and this Schedule up to the amount of the eligible rent that is due, may be paid direct to the landlord concerned in respect of that rent.
(5) Where a claimant was the tenant of a housing or local authority for the whole or part of the relevant period, to the extent that any eligible rent remains due to the authority concerned in respect of the whole or part of that period, any housing benefit to which the claimant is entitled under regulation 7B and this Schedule shall —
(a) where that authority is the authority to whom the claim under this Schedule is made, be reduced by the amount of the eligible rent remaining due to that authority; and
(b) in any other case, be paid to the authority concerned,
and any balance of benefit remaining due in respect of that period shall be paid to the claimant.