809.Paragraph 15 provides for regulations enabling a person’s entitlement to benefit to be terminated where payment has been suspended in accordance with regulations under paragraph 13 above and the person has subsequently failed to comply with an information requirement or, in the case of paragraph 14 above, the person has persisted in their failure to comply with an information requirement.
810.In line with other social security benefits, in the case of suspension under paragraph 14, it is proposed that regulations would provide that benefit would be suspended until the claimant provides the requested information, up to a maximum period of one month. If at the end of a month the information is not provided then entitlement to benefit would be terminated from the date suspension commenced. In the case of a suspension under paragraph 13, it is proposed that regulations would provide a maximum period of one month following the notification of the information requirement. The one-month period may be extended if special reasons apply.
Part III: Social Security Administration Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Schedule 7 Paragraph 15: Termination in cases of failure to furnish information