{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1995/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1995/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/872",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1995",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Backdated benefit",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where—\n(a) during the relevant year an authority has, under paragraph (15) of regulation 72 of the Housing Benefit Regulations, treated any claim for a rebate or allowance as made on a day earlier than that on which it is made; and\n(b) any part of that authority’s housing benefit qualifying expenditure is attributable to such earlier period,\nfor the purposes of article 4(1)(b)(ii), the appropriate amount for the relevant year in respect of such part shall be 50 per cent. of the housing benefit qualifying expenditure so attributable.\n(2) This article shall not apply in a case to which article lO(1)(b)(ii) applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/872/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:12:17.259395+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."
}