The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1996
These Regulations further amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1971). Regulations 3 and 4 create a new maximum rent in the case of certain single claimants who are under 25 (“young individuals”), in respect of whom a rent officer has determined and notified a single room rent. Regulations 5 and 9 make provision for local authorities to refer applications for a rent allowance by young individuals to rent officers and to inform them that the application is from a young individual. Regulation 10(1) provides that these changes shall not apply to those young individuals to whom the savings provision in the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1644) (providing exemption from the changes introduced by those Regulations) apply and regulation 10(2) provides that, when young individuals do not enjoy that savings protection, the changes introduced by regulations 3, 4, 5 and 9 shall not apply to those in receipt of benefit on 6th October 1996 until they move home or their current benefit period comes to an end.