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.
Specified date: 20 November 2006: see above.
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.”.
Specified date: 20 November 2006: see reg 1.
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.”.
Specified date: 20 November 2006: see reg 1.
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.”.
Specified date: 20 November 2006: see reg 1.
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.”.
Specified date: 20 November 2006: see reg 1.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
James Plaskitt
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Work and Pensions
19th October 2006
These Regulations amend the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/213), the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/214), the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/215), and the Council Tax Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/216) to grant authorities the power to modify those Regulations to provide that certain payments made under the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005 (SI 2005/439) may be disregarded from the calculation of income for housing benefit or council tax benefit purposes.
