Explanatory note

This Order makes provision for the calculation of housing benefit and community charge benefit subsidy payable under the Social Security Act 1986 to authorities administering housing benefit and community charge benefit.

It sets out in Part II the manner in which the total figure for an authority’s housing benefit subsidy in respect of rent rebates and allowances and, in Scotland, community charge rebates, for the year ending 31st March 1992 is calculated (articles 3(a) and 4 to 11 and Schedules 3, 4, 5 and 6), and the manner of calculating the additional sum payable to an authority in respect of the costs of administering housing benefit (article 3(b) and Schedules 1, 7, 8 and 9).

The Order also makes provision for additions and deductions to subsidy in respect of rent rebates or allowances (articles 12, 13 and 14) and for the modification of the provisions for subsidy in respect of payments of housing benefit in excess of entitlement, made under section 32 of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 and discovered in the relevant year (article 15).

In addition, the Order sets out in Part III the manner in which the total figure for the appropriate authority’s subsidy in respect of community charge benefit for the year ending 31st March 1992 is calculated (articles 17(a) and 18 to 20), and the manner of calculating the additional sum payable to an appropriate authority in respect of the costs of administering community charge benefit (article 17(b) and Schedules 2, 7, 8 and 9) and makes provision for additions and deductions to subsidy in respect of community charge benefit (articles 21 and 22).