Update: The Housing Benefit and State Pension Credit (Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

20. In HB G3/2016 we advised you about a change to the ‘coming into force’ date of 30 May 2016, rather than April, for the proposed amendments to the temporary absence provisions in the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 and the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for State Pension Credit) Regulations 2006.
21. This is to further update you that the regulations will not now be laid in time for the May ‘coming into force’ date; instead we plan to lay them in the summer 2016. Guidance will be issued ahead of this time.