The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/471
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

(2) In this Order—

“housing benefit” means rate rebate, rent rebate or rent allowance, as the circumstances may require;

“ Housing Benefit Regulations ” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 .

Section 2 Permitted totals of benefit

For the purpose of section 28(9) of the Social Security Act 1986, the permitted total of rebates or allowances for any year in relation to an authority shall be the amount obtained by deducting 100% of any increases in housing benefit granted during that year by that authority under regulation 69(8) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (additional amount of benefit in exceptional circumstances) from the total housing benefit granted by that authority during that year and multiplying the resultant figure by 100.1%.