Sections 13 to 15 provide for amending the rules governing entitlement to supplementary welfare allowance basic payments and rent supplements. Section 13 provides that, where new claims for rent supplement are submitted after the proposal comes into force, a supplement will only be payable where the claimant is lawfully in the State. This measure is being introduced for consistency. It removes the anomaly whereby a person could be in breach of their obligations to the State's immigration service while at the same time having their housing costs subsidised by the community welfare service. Following the enactment of this section, rent supplement will only be payable on receipt of a new claim from an asylum seeker if he or she is granted refugee status or leave to remain in the State on humanitarian grounds by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. This measure is being implemented following discussions with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Office of the Attorney General.