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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-13",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1814",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Calculation of income on a weekly basis",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 18 (disregard of changes in tax, contributions etc), for the purposes of section 131(5) of the Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (conditions of entitlement to council tax benefit) the income of a claimant shall be calculated on a weekly basis—\n(a) by estimating the amount which is likely to be his average weekly income over the benefit period in accordance with this Chapter and Chapters III to V of this Part and Part V; and\n(b) by adding to that amount the weekly income calculated under regulation 37 (calculation of tariff income from capital).\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) “income” includes capital treated as income under regulation 25 (capital treated as income) and income which a claimant is treated as possessing under regulation 26 (notional income).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
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      "type": "sum substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/522",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2005"
    },
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      "type": "sum substituted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2005"
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    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 13-37",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/325",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/455",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1864",
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      "type": "word substituted",
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    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/14",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Abolition of Benefit Periods) Amendment Regulations 2004"
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      "type": "sum substituted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2004"
    },
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      "type": "sum substituted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "sum substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/920",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit(General) Amendment Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "sum substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/920",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit(General) Amendment Regulations 1999"
    },
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      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1471",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1471",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1924",
      "affecting_title": "The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.4) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1924",
      "affecting_title": "The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.4) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2793",
      "affecting_title": "The Income-related Benefits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2793",
      "affecting_title": "The Income-related Benefits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "sum confirmed",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/645",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "sum confirmed",
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2006"
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    {
      "type": "amended",
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    }
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}