The Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance, Miscellaneous and Consequential) Amendment Regulations 2007
These Regulations, together with the Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance and Information Sharing) Amendment Regulations 2007 and the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) (Local Housing Allowance and Information Sharing) Amendment Regulations 2007 (referred to collectively in this note as the LHA regulations) and the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2871), provide for the national rollout of a modified version of the local housing allowance arrangements. The LHA regulations use new powers in the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 following commencement of section 30 of The Welfare Reform Act 2007. They also remake some regulations (with amendments in some cases) as the existing regulations will cease to have effect (subject to savings) when the current powers are repealed. These Regulations also make provisions relating to decision making in relation to housing benefit.