The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2006

• Citation: S.I. 2006/2813
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 20th November 2006.

Section 2 Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

In regulation 40 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (calculation of income other than earnings) after paragraph (4) insert—

(4A) An authority may modify this Part so as to provide for disregarding, in determining a person’s income (whether he is the occupier of a dwelling or any other person whose income falls to be aggregated with that of the occupier of the dwelling), the whole or any part of any payment made under article 14(1)(b) or 21(1)(a) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005 .

Section 3 Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

In regulation 33 of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (calculation of weekly income) after paragraph (13) add—

(14) An authority may modify this Part so as to provide for disregarding, in determining a person’s income (whether he is the occupier of a dwelling or any other person whose income falls to be aggregated with that of the occupier of the dwelling), the whole or any part of any payment made under article 14(1)(b) or 21(1)(a) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005.

Section 4 Amendment of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006

In regulation 30 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 (calculation of income other than earnings) after paragraph (4) insert—

(4A) An authority may modify this Part so as to provide for disregarding, in determining a person’s income, the whole or any part of any payment payable under article 14(1)(b) or 21(1)(a) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005 to that person, or to his partner or to a person to whom he is polygamously married.

Section 5 Amendment of the Council Tax (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

In regulation 23 of the Council Tax (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (calculation of weekly income) after paragraph (13) add—

(14) An authority may modify this Part so as to provide for disregarding, in determining a person’s income, the whole or any part of any payment payable under article 14(1)(b) or 21(1)(a) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005 to that person, or to his partner or to a person to whom he is polygamously married.