The Housing Benefit (Loss of Benefit) (Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2007
These Regulations prescribe the rate by which housing benefit is to be reduced during the restriction period referred to in section 130B(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992. Section 130B was inserted by the Welfare Reform Act 2007. It provides that housing benefit is to be reduced if a former occupier is evicted from his home on grounds of anti-social behaviour under a relevant possession order (as defined in section 130C of the 1992 Act) and other conditions are satisfied, including the failure without good cause to comply with a warning notice requiring the former occupier to take specified action. Housing benefit will be reduced for the restriction period, which can last up to 5 years (section 130B(8)).