Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989. They raise, from £8,000 to £16,000, the capital limit over which a person is not to be entitled to community charge benefit, the limit for treating outstanding capital as income and the limit for calculating weekly tariff income (regulation 2). They also make provision, where a person becomes entitled to benefit because of the increase in the capital limit, for backdating a claim made not later than 27th May 1990 to the date on which the person satisfied the entitlement conditions for benefit and for entitlement to begin from the benefit week in which that date falls (regulations 3 and 4).