The Housing Benefit (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Explanatory note

Reproduced verbatim from the instrument as published on legislation.gov.uk (Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). The note is prepared by the responsible government department and is not part of the instrument itself.

regulation 98 is amended so as to set out more clearly from whom an overpayment is recoverable;

regulation 99 is amended to permit recovery of an overpayment, where the claimant has one or more partners, by deduction from any housing benefit payable to the partner, or where the relevant authority is unable to do so, from the benefits prescribed in regulation 102, provided that the claimant and his partner were a couple both at the time of the overpayment and when the deduction is made; and

regulation 102 is amended to insert the prescribed benefits from which recovery may be sought from the claimant’s partner.