808.This paragraph provides a regulation-making power so that payments of benefit may be suspended where a person fails to provide information needed to determine whether a decision on an award of benefit should be revised or superseded.
Sub-paragraph (1) provides that the power to suspend in this paragraph applies to failure to comply with information requirements (defined in sub-paragraph (3)).
Sub-paragraph (2) enables regulations to: (a) set out the circumstances in which payments of HB/CTB may be wholly or partially suspended; (b) prescribe circumstances in which any reduction by way of CTB in a person’s council tax liability may be partly or wholly suspended; and (c) prescribe the circumstances in which any or all the suspended payments are to be restored.
In line with other social security benefits, it is proposed that regulations will provide that, as a general rule, payment of benefit may be suspended, in whole or in part, if the person fails to provide the requested information within one month of being asked.
Sub-paragraph (3) defines an information requirement, for the purposes of this paragraph and paragraph 15, as being a requirement under regulations made under section 5(1)(hh) or 6(1)(hh) of the Administration Act, as amended by paragraphs 21(2) and 21(3) of the Schedule, with respect to the provision of information and evidence needed to determine whether a decision on an award of HB/CTB should be revised or superseded.
Part III: Social Security Administration Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Schedule 7 Paragraph 14: Suspension for failure to furnish information etc