Claimant moved into boyfriend’s local authority flat and claimed housing benefit (HB) after he had stopped paying rent and had been sentenced to immediate term of imprisonment of more than 2 years – Whether claimant was ‘a person who has to make payments if [she] is to continue to live in the home’ within meaning of reg 8(1)(c) of Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 – Whether she was ‘some other person whom it is reasonable to treat as liable to make the payments’ within reg. 8(1)(c)(ii) – Whether entitled to HB by reason of reg. 8(1)(a) and reg. 12(1)(d) when boyfriend’s local authority landlord refused to recognise her as caretaker and/or set up a use and occupation account for the property.
Citations:
[2021] UKUT 305 (AAC)
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Benefits
Updated: 24 March 2022; Ref: scu.671298