I WAS in a hurry. 🙂 . Have now read your post properly, I thought you meant under pension age regs.
Anywho
[quote=Kully Bains]Would you allow Housing Benefit ? i dont think checking contrived tenancy is applicable as someone does have a genuine laiblity to pay rent[/quote]
That fact, does not change contrivance, it doesn’t have to be between the L/L and tenant to be contrived. You will have to convince a Juge that the reason they took on the liability is to take advantage. As you said you can’t use the non-deps incme because of GC.
You may get better/other views on the main HBR 2006 regs message boards. I think it’s a 50/50. Unless you convince the DWP the claimant no longer has R2R, for PCGC, I also can’t see that happening.