{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-1", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json", "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/1", "kind": "paragraph", "number": "1", "heading": null, "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, the alternative maximum council tax benefit in respect of a day for the purpose of regulation 54 shall be determined in accordance with the following Table and in this Table “second adult” means any person or persons residing with the claimant to whom section 131(6) of the Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 applies.\n(2) In this Schedule “council tax due in respect of that day” means the council tax payable under section 10 or 78 of the 1992 Act less any reductions made under section 13 or 80 (reduced amounts of council tax).\nTABLE\n(1)\n(2)\nSecond adult\nAlternative maximum council tax benefit\n(a) Where the second adult or all second adults are in receipt of income support;\n(a) 25 per cent. of the council tax due in respect of that day;\n(b) Where the gross income of the second adult or, where there is more than one second adult, their aggregate gross income disregarding any income of persons on income support,\n(b)\n(i) is less than £105 per week;\n(i) 15 per cent. of the council tax due in respect of that day;\n(ii) is not less than £105 per week, but is less than £135 per week;\n(ii) 7.5 per cent. of the council tax due in respect of that day.", "extent": "E+W+S", "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "F", "label": "F1", "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Table substituted (1.4.1993 immediately after art. 20 of S.I. 1993/349 comes into force) by The Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/688), regs. 1(1), 23(a)(i)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F2", "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Table substituted (1.4.1993 immediately after art. 20 of S.I. 1993/349 comes into force) by The Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/688), regs. 1(1), 23(a)(ii)" }, { "type": "I", "label": "I1", "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)" } ], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "sum substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2005/522", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2005" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2005/522", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2005" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2005/2502", "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.3) Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "word substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2003/526", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2003" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2003/526", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2003" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2003/325", "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations 2003" }, { "type": "sum substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2001/207", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating (No. 2) Order 2000" }, { "type": "sum substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2001/207", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating (No. 2) Order 2000" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/1996/599", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1996" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/1996/1510", "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit and Supply of Information (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/1996/1510", "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit and Supply of Information (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996" }, { "type": "sum substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/552", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2004" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/552", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2004" }, { "type": "words omitted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/154", "affecting_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (Abolition of Restrictions) Regulations 2004" }, { "type": "omitted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/154", "affecting_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (Abolition of Restrictions) Regulations 2004" }, { "type": "omitted", "affecting": "uksi/2004/154", "affecting_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (Abolition of Restrictions) Regulations 2004" }, { "type": "word substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2002/668", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2002" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2002/668", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2002" }, { "type": "sum substituted", "affecting": "uksi/1999/264", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1999" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/1999/264", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1999" }, { "type": "sum substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2000/440", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2000" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2000/440", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2000" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/1997/543", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1997" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/1997/1841", "affecting_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1997" }, { "type": "inserted", "affecting": "uksi/1997/1841", "affecting_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1997" }, { "type": "sums substituted", "affecting": "uksi/1995/559", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1995" }, { "type": "word substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/645", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2006" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/645", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2006" }, { "type": "word substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2006/645", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2006" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1996/599", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1996" }, { "type": "modified", "affecting": "uksi/2000/3134", "affecting_title": "The Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 2000" }, { "type": "modified", "affecting": "uksi/2000/3134", "affecting_title": "The Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 2000" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1997/543", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1997" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/2000/440", "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2000" } ], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1814/schedule/2/paragraph/1", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:39.387743+00:00" }, "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." }