Regulation 12B (2) provides that a persons eligble rent is the aggregate of such payments specified in Regulation 12(1). There is no provision to deem payments ineligible if the person is not liable for certain other payments specified in Regulation 12(1)
Ex p Jacobs considered the equivalent provision to what is now Regulation 12B(2)(a)
I think you are reading something into the Regulations that is simply just not there
I am not an HB assessor by the way I am a Welfare Rights Advisor and represent claimants.
