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Liability for rent when an employee of housing association etc
Hi, under UC a potential problem where tenant of a housing association is also an employee of them? The UC draft regs Part 2 reg 6 precludes liability for rent where the rent is paid to a company and the claimant is a director of employee of that company. This is pretty much the same as in reg 9 (1)(e) of HB regs except that’s never been an issue because para 3 says that 9(1)(e) doesn’t apply where there’s no intention to take advantage of the HB system.
But there doesn’t seem to be any such proviso in the HB regs. Do you think this is an omission that will be sorted out in the final UC regs, or do you think the situation of a Housing Association employee/tenant won’t be affected by this reg (maybe a HA is not a “company”??) or do you think it’s intentional???
Thanks