Housing Benefit Guidance Manual: Amendment 17 December 2008
Chapter A3 - Liability to make payments and occupying the home
Contents
- 3.00 - About this chapter
- 3.50 - Liability to pay for accommodation
- 3.51 Council Tax liability for students
- 3.70 - Is there a legally enforceable liability?
- 3.80 - Unregistered or unlicensed properties
- 3.90 - Claimants who are not liable but are treated as if they are - regulation 8
- 3.120 - Landlord waives liability for payment
- 3.140 - Paying as if liable
- 3.160 - Rent has already been paid for future period
- 3.200 - Claimant is liable but cannot receive HB
- 3.210 - Crown Tenants
- 3.230 - Claimants who are liable but are treated as if they are not
- 3.232 - Regulation 9
- 3.235 - Specific cases
- 3.238 - Landlord is a close relative
- 3.239 - Definition of close relative
- 3.240 - Half brothers and sisters
- 3.243 - The effect of divorce or death on close relationships created by marriage
- 3.246 - Civil partnerships
- 3.250 - Previous non-dependant
- 3.255 - Members of a religious order
- 3.257 - Members of a religious community
- 3.258 - Non-commercial arrangements
- 3.271 - Landlord is a company
- 3.275 - Landlord is a director of a company employing the claimant
- 3.278 - Landlord is a trustee of a trust
- 3.280 - Claimant's child or partner's child is a beneficiary of the trust
- 3.281 - Ex-owners
- 3.282 - Claimant could not continue residing in property without transfer of ownership
- 3.287 - Joint owners
- 3.289 - Tied accommodation
- 3.300 - Arrangements not intended to abuse HB regulation 9
- 3.301 - Exemptions under regulation 9
- 3.310 - General provision
- 3.320 - Volunteers
- 3.350 - Occupying the home
- 3.370 - Single or lone parent students or trainees away from normal home
- 3.390 - Claimant leaves normal home while essential repairs are done
- 3.410 - Cases involving domestic violence
- 3.430 - Period of Notice
- 3.450 - Temporary absence from home
- 3.460 - General points
- 3.470 - Reviewing the temporary absence
- 3.480 - Standard rule - the 13 weeks limit
- P3.500 - Polish Homes
- 3.510 - Sentenced prisoners
- 3.512 - Home Detention Curfew - electronic tagging
- 3.518 - Likely early release dates for sentenced prisoners
- 3.532 - Temporary absence may be longer than 52 weeks
- 3.535 - Remand prisoners
- 3.541 - Medically approved care or convalescence
- 3.544 - Training courses in the UK or abroad
- 3.547 - Vulnerable students
- 3.548 - Fear of domestic violence
- 3.552 - Claimants receiving care in residential accommodation, but not on a trial basis
- 3.570 - Trial periods in residential accommodation
- 3.590 - Reason for temporary absence changes
- 3.620 - Overlapping benefit on two homes
- 3.630 - Fear of violence
- 3.650 - One of a couple is a student or trainee
- 3.660 - Large families
- 3.670 - Unavoidable overlap of liability
- 3.690 - Landlord re-lets accommodation before notice period ends
- 3.700 - Rent payable for a period before occupation
- 3.702 - When to consider payment for a period before occupation
- 3.730 - Date of claim
- Annex A - R v. Manchester City Council, ex parte Baragrove Properties
- Annex B - Government departments and agencies with residential accomodation let to tenants
- Annex C - CT liability when students share accommodation: examples