The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 5) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
These Regulations further amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (“the 1987 Regulations”) and the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 to provide—that a claim for housing benefit may be made by a person who has been recorded as a refugee by the Secretary of State in respect of the period from and including the date of his claim for asylum to the date he is recorded as a refugee;for the date on which such a claim for benefit is to be treated as made, andthat any benefit to which the claimant is entitled shall be paid.