(1) Where the occupier of a dwelling is liable to make payments in respect of that dwelling to a housing authority as a result of the making of an order specified in paragraph (2), housing benefit in respect of those payments shall take the form of a rent allowance.

(2) The orders specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—

(a) a management control order made in accordance with section 74 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004;

(b) an interim management order made in accordance with section 102 of the Housing Act 2004;

(d) an interim empty dwelling management order made in accordance with section 133 of that Act; and

(e) a final empty dwelling management order made in accordance with section 136 of that Act.

(3) Where—

(a) the occupier of a caravan, mobile home or houseboat is liable to make payments in respect of that caravan, mobile home or houseboat and housing benefit in relation to those payments takes the form of a rent allowance; and

(b) the occupier is also liable to make payments to a housing authority in respect of the site on which that caravan or mobile home stands, or in respect of the mooring to which the houseboat is attached,

housing benefit in respect of payments to the housing authority shall take the form of a rent allowance.

Frequency of payment of a rent allowance

Payment on account of a rent allowance

Payment to be made to a person entitled

Circumstances in which payment is to be made to a landlord

Circumstances in which payment may be made to a landlord

Payment on death of the person entitled

Offsetting

Treatment of fee loans

64A

A loan for fees, known as a fee loan or a fee contribution loan, made pursuant to regulations made under Article 3 of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 or section 73(f) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980, shall be disregarded as income.

Treatment of payments from access funds

Disregard of contribution and rent

Further disregard of student's income

Amounts treated as capital

Disregard of changes occurring during summer vacation

14A

(1) Any payment made to the claimant or the claimant’s partner in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant or, as the case may be, the claimant’s partner.

(2) But sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) applies only for the period of 52 weeks beginning with the day on which the claimant first receives any payment in consequence of that personal injury;

(b) does not apply to any subsequent payment made to him in consequence of that injury (whether it is made by the same person or another);

(d) does not apply to any payment from a trust where the funds of the trust are derived from a payment made in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(c), the circumstances in which a claimant no longer possesses a payment or a part of it include where the claimant has used a payment or part of it to purchase an asset.

(4) References in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) to the claimant are to be construed as including references to his partner (where applicable).

Electronic claims for benefit

83A

A claim for housing benefit may be made by means of an electronic communication in accordance with Schedule 11.

Date of claim where claim sent or delivered to an office of a designated authority

Evidence and information

Amendment and withdrawal of claim

Duty to notify changes of circumstances

Notice of changes of circumstances given electronically

88A

(1) A person may give notice of a change of circumstances required to be notified under regulation 88 by means of an electronic communication in accordance with Schedule 11.

(2) Where—

(a) the change of circumstances required to be notified is a death; and

(b) the authority administering the claimant's housing benefit agrees with the Secretary of State that notifications may be made in accordance with regulation 88ZA(1) (alternative means of notifying changes of circumstances),

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