Legislation – The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 31 and Savings and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 21 and 23 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2019
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Amendment of the No. 21 Order and the No. 23 Order: transitional provision preventing claims for housing benefit5.
(1)
The following amendments of the No. 21 Order and the No. 23 Order have effect from the day after the day of making of this Order.
(2)
“(a)
in the case of a claim for housing benefit, the claim is made by a member of a State Pension Credit Act couple who has reached the qualifying age for state pension credit, where the other member has not reached that age, and entitlement begins, or in the case of claims made in advance of entitlement is to begin—
(i)
before 15th May 2019; or
(ii)
on or after 15th May 2019 where one of the savings in the sub-paragraphs of article 4(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 31 and Savings and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 21 and 23 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2019 applies to that person and the saving has not ceased to have effect under article 4(2) of that Order, and
entitlement to housing benefit is to be construed in accordance with article 2 of that Order;”.