{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-permitted-totals-order-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-permitted-totals-order-1988/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/471",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-permitted-totals-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order sets out the basis for calculating the permitted total of rebates or allowances for any year for authorities granting housing benefit under Part II of the Social Security Act 1986, and limits the amount by which housing benefit payments may be increased on account of payments to claimants whose circumstances are exceptional.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/471/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:09:57.120798+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."
}