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  "title": "The Council Tax Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996",
  "short_title": "Council Tax Benefit (Permitted Totals) 1996",
  "long_title": "This Order sets out the basis for calculating the permitted total of council tax benefit for any year for authorities granting such benefit under Part VIII of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, and limits the amount by which council tax benefit allowed by an authority may be increased in the case of claimants whose circumstances are exceptional or in the case of war widows where the authority’s scheme has been modified.",
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