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The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996

S.I. 1996/677 · Made 7 March 1996 · Extends to England, Wales and Scotland

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SOCIAL SECURITY

Made 7th March 1996

Laid before Parliament 11th March 1996

Coming into force 1st April 1996

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 134(12) and 189(1) and (3) to (6) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992M1 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concernedM2, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Marginal citations

M1

1992 c.5.

M2

See section 176(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Permitted total of benefit awarded in exercise of a discretion
  3. 3Increase in housing benefit
  4. 4Increase above maximum rent
  5. 5Permitted total of benefit in modified schemes
  6. 6Revocation
  7. Signature
  8. Schedule TOTALS FOR INCREASES ABOVE MAXIMUM RENT
  9. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

(2)

In this Order—

“the Act" means the Social Security Administration Act 1992 M1;

“housing benefit" means either rent rebate or rent allowance as the circumstances may require;

“the Housing Benefit Regulations" means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 M2;

“increase in housing benefit" means the difference between—

(a)

the amount of housing benefit granted in a case in which an authority makes a determination under regulation 61(2) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (increase in the appropriate maximum housing benefit) M3, and

(b)

the amount of housing benefit which would have been granted in that case if the authority had not made a determination under regulation 61(2) of those Regulations; and

“increase above maximum rent" means the difference between—

  1. (a)

    the amount of housing benefit granted in a case in which an authority makes a determination under regulation 61(3) of the Housing Benefit Regulations M4, and

  2. (b)

    the amount of housing benefit which would have been granted in that case if the authority had not made a determination under regulation 61(3) of those Regulations.

2Permitted total of benefit awarded in exercise of a discretion

For the purpose of section 134(11) of the Act, the permitted total of housing benefit

F1(a)

for the year commencing on 1st April 1996 in relation to an authority shall be the total of the amounts obtained by the calculations set out in articles 3 and 4 below.

F2(b)

for the year commencing on 1st April 1997 in relation to an authority shall be the total of the amounts obtained by the calculations set out in articles 3 and 4 below; and

(c)

for any year commencing on or after 1st April 1998 in relation to an authority shall be the total of the amount obtained by the calculation in article 3 below and the amount specified in the Schedule to this Order.

3Increase in housing benefit

The calculation referred to in article 2 above shall be the amount obtained by deducting 100% of any increases in housing benefit in cases in which that authority has during that year made a determination under regulation 61(2) of the Housing Benefit Regulations from the total housing benefit granted by that authority during that year, after deduction of any increase above maximum rent, and multiplying the resulting figure by F1100.025%.

4Increase above maximum rent

(1)

The calculation referred to in article 2 above shall be the amount obtained by deducting 100% of any increases above maximum rent in cases in which that authority has during that year made a determination under regulation 61(3) of the Housing Benefit Regulations from the total housing benefit granted by that authority during that year, less the deductions specified in paragraph (2) below, and multiplying the resulting figure by F1101.08%.

(2)

The deductions referred to in paragraph (1) above are—

(a)

all rent rebates granted during that year;

(b)

subject to paragraph (3) below, all rent allowances granted during that year in cases where the local authority did not refer a claim for housing benefit, in relation to the dwelling in respect of which that allowance was granted, to the rent officer pursuant to regulation 12A of the Housing Benefit Regulations M1; and

(c)

any increase in housing benefit.

(3)

No rent allowance shall be deducted pursuant to paragraph (2)(b) above, if that case was not referred to the rent officer by reason of paragraph (2)(a) of regulation 12A of those Regulations.

5Permitted total of benefit in modified schemes

For the purpose of section 134(9) of the Act (modifications other than war disablement pension or war widows pension within the Act), the permitted total of housing benefit for F1any year commencing on or after on 1st April 1996 in relation to an authority shall be the total of the amounts obtained by deducting 100% of any housing benefit awarded as a consequence of any determination to disregard made by that authority during that year pursuant to a modification adopted by them under section 134(8)(b) of the Act (power to modify housing benefit schemes as prescribed) and regulation 7 of the Income-related Benefits Schemes Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1995 M1 (power to modify in respect of certain pensions to war widows) from the total housing benefit granted by that authority during that year and multiplying the resulting figure by 100.7%.

6Revocation

The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1995 M1 is hereby revoked.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Roger Evans

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

TOTALS FOR INCREASES ABOVE MAXIMUM RENTF1

AuthorityPermitted Total
£
England
Adur11,073
Allerdale14,001
Alnwick2,832
Amber Valley12,361
Arun41,402
Ashfield12,423
Ashford12,112
Aylesbury Vale13,412
Babergh10,044
Barking38,065
Barnet133,375
Barnsley31,155
Barrow in Furness23,278
Basildon21,576
Basingstoke and Deane12,982
Bassetlaw14,013
Bath and NE Somerset31,322
Bedford25,697
Berwick upon Tweed3,833
Bexley49,763
Birmingham198,165
Blaby4,376
Blackburn with Darwen33,307
Blackpool117,965
Blyth Valley8,004
Bolsover13,007
Bolton46,138
Boston5,138
Bournemouth95,696
Bracknell Forest13,822
Bradford123,752
Braintree14,434
Breckland12,774
Brent193,395
Brentwood7,087
Bridgnorth4,120
Brighton and Hove180,857
Bristol96,138
Broadland8,928
Bromley50,991
Bromsgrove4,359
Broxbourne13,260
Broxtowe11,299
Burnley25,828
Bury29,838
Calderdale28,108
Cambridge16,167
Camden132,750
Cannock Chase6,657
Canterbury33,324
Caradon20,600
Carlisle13,889
Carrick24,764
Castle Morpeth3,056
Castle Point21,278
Charnwood17,868
Chelmsford14,838
Cheltenham24,155
Cherwell23,520
Chester16,699
Chester le Street5,524
Chesterfield14,802
Chichester15,367
Chiltern4,842
Chorley9,480
Christchurch6,318
City of London1,439
Colchester28,238
Congleton4,887
Copeland12,193
Corby12,013
Cotswold9,367
Coventry67,163
Craven6,118
Crawley7,786
Crewe and Nantwich13,121
Croydon145,919
Dacorum13,429
Darlington19,355
Dartford15,715
Daventry4,365
Derby48,483
Derbyshire Dales3,813
Derwentside10,221
Doncaster39,071
Dover36,954
Dudley21,784
Durham5,937
Ealing158,493
Easington10,063
East Cambridgeshire7,026
East Devon18,050
East Dorset6,974
East Hampshire11,956
East Hertfordshire10,036
East Lindsey32,105
East Northamptonshire8,204
East Riding of Yorkshire57,413
East Staffordshire12,968
Eastbourne42,495
Eastleigh12,311
Eden5,083
Ellesmere Port and Neston5,910
Elmbridge22,072
Enfield109,407
Epping Forest20,508
Epsom and Ewell9,885
Erewash13,294
Exeter35,462
Fareham9,844
Fenland17,307
Forest Heath6,146
Forest of Dean10,316
Fylde17,760
Gateshead27,463
Gedling12,914
Gloucester38,822
Gosport11,207
Gravesham21,343
Great Yarmouth40,174
Greenwich56,280
Guildford17,990
Hackney159,737
Halton17,626
Hambleton8,380
Hammersmith and Fulham92,023
Harborough4,066
Haringey254,022
Harlow10,481
Harrogate24,943
Harrow74,970
Hart6,633
Hartlepool20,158
Hastings70,070
Havant15,981
Havering36,693
Herefordshire31,035
Hertsmere10,520
High Peak11,583
Hillingdon48,018
Hinckley and Bosworth6,864
Horsham11,381
Hounslow81,898
Huntingdonshire12,412
Hyndburn23,110
Ipswich23,448
Isle of Wight48,692
Isles of Scilly112
Islington75,538
Kennet6,553
Kensington and Chelsea95,011
Kerrier23,573
Kettering11,336
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk19,448
Kingston upon Hull61,181
Kingston upon Thames23,020
Kirklees61,583
Knowsley24,691
Lambeth166,917
Lancaster52,083
Leeds161,079
Leicester51,758
Lewes24,395
Lewisham118,483
Lichfield3,550
Lincoln20,575
Liverpool201,524
Luton63,742
Macclesfield16,110
Maidstone17,903
Maldon18,921
Malvern Hills7,025
Manchester195,674
Mansfield14,897
Medway108,499
Melton3,109
Mendip21,594
Merton57,194
Mid Bedfordshire8,266
Mid Devon12,064
Mid Suffolk6,806
Mid Sussex13,107
Middlesbrough30,388
Milton Keynes30,589
Mole Valley6,461
New Forest19,869
Newark and Sherwood12,775
Newcastle under Lyme8,317
Newcastle upon Tyne75,679
Newham236,456
North Cornwall22,078
North Devon33,937
North Dorset5,647
North East Derby5,846
North East Lincoln42,198
North Hertfordshire15,823
North Kesteven6,418
North Lincolnshire20,707
North Norfolk19,096
North Shropshire6,383
North Somerset58,091
North Tyneside49,049
North Warwickshire3,801
North West Leicester5,509
North Wiltshire9,457
Northampton32,163
Norwich26,986
Nottingham59,030
Nuneaton and Bedworth14,606
Oadby and Wigston4,630
Oldham34,150
Oswestry4,760
Oxford48,078
Pendle19,716
Penwith23,242
Peterborough41,089
Plymouth95,680
Poole29,167
Portsmouth67,055
Preston23,230
Purbeck7,603
Reading51,780
Redbridge142,324
Redcar and Cleveland22,464
Redditch5,822
Reigate and Banstead13,661
Restormel32,194
Ribble Valley5,025
Richmond upon Thames34,918
Richmondshire4,019
Rochdale43,229
Rochford10,624
Rossendale11,986
Rother22,310
Rotherham23,596
Rugby7,523
Runnymede9,170
Rushcliffe9,619
Rushmoor11,126
Rutland1,986
Ryedale5,138
Salford77,097
Salisbury19,512
Sandwell31,220
Scarborough37,313
Sedgefield7,215
Sedgemoor21,337
Sefton84,267
Selby6,559
Sevenoaks10,096
Sheffield52,222
Shepway51,579
Shrewsbury and Atcham12,479
Slough36,269
Solihull11,316
South Bedfordshire10,573
South Bucks3,586
South Cambridgeshire8,860
South Derbyshire11,106
South Gloucestershire20,227
South Hams19,260
South Holland5,045
South Kesteven13,603
South Lakeland15,835
South Norfolk9,469
South Northants5,306
South Oxfordshire19,106
South Ribble6,160
South Shropshire6,168
South Somerset22,317
South Staffordshire4,463
South Tyneside32,453
Southampton73,593
Southend on Sea97,336
Southwark90,007
Spelthorne10,818
St Albans9,953
St Edmundsbury8,585
St Helens23,507
Stafford7,452
Staffordshire Moorlands7,006
Stevenage9,376
Stockport51,884
Stockton on Tees28,021
Stoke on Trent34,205
Stratford on Avon11,053
Stroud14,432
Suffolk Coastal17,852
Sunderland53,243
Surrey Heath7,169
Sutton34,929
Swale41,749
Swindon23,721
Tameside36,307
Tamworth9,172
Tandridge7,092
Taunton Deane21,426
Teesdale2,865
Teignbridge29,864
Telford and Wrekin18,049
Tendring44,271
Test Valley6,818
Tewkesbury8,100
Thanet88,716
Three Rivers8,128
Thurrock24,684
Tonbridge and Malling9,546
Torbay85,563
Torridge18,849
Tower Hamlets45,003
Trafford35,417
Tunbridge Wells14,206
Tynedale3,800
Uttlesford6,206
Vale of White Horse9,747
Vale Royal7,303
Wakefield27,358
Walsall18,945
Waltham Forest158,176
Wandsworth121,014
Wansbeck6,844
Warrington13,911
Warwick15,350
Watford16,358
Waveney51,698
Waverley13,121
Wealdon21,509
Wear Valley7,507
Wellingborough10,445
Welwyn Hatfield9,713
West Berkshire10,976
West Devon12,775
West Dorset11,805
West Lancashire13,010
West Lindsey9,532
West Oxfordshire11,866
West Somerset10,899
West Wiltshire20,797
Westminster189,131
Weymouth and Portland23,141
Wigan26,933
Winchester8,637
Windsor and Maidenhead17,452
Wirral104,453
Woking10,638
Wokingham11,843
Wolverhampton28,921
Worcester24,231
Worthing33,956
Wychavon6,710
Wycombe12,804
Wyre22,173
Wyre Forest11,956
York29,336
Scotland
Aberdeen17,118
Aberdeenshire15,810
Angus10,333
Argyll and Bute17,435
Comhairle Nan Eilean Sair2,249
Clackmannanshire3,067
Dumfries and Galloway19,846
Dundee23,135
East Ayrshire8,128
East Dunbartonshire5,812
East Lothian12,140
East Renfrewshire5,656
Edinburgh116,558
Falkirk8,674
Fife43,080
Glasgow122,279
Highland18,909
Inverclyde9,892
Midlothian5,423
Moray9,487
North Ayrshire17,642
North Lanarkshire12,042
Orkney2,857
Perth and Kinross21,140
Renfrewshire14,138
Scottish Borders7,350
Shetland775
South Ayrshire22,019
South Lanarkshire17,803
Stirling7,290
West Dunbartonshire5,438
West Lothian12,617
Wales
Blaenau Gwent10,753
Bridgend25,789
Caerphilly24,394
Cardiff60,004
Carmarthenshire32,572
Ceredigion18,702
Conwy37,048
Denbighshire30,347
Flintshire16,400
Gwynedd31,422
Isle of Anglesey18,958
Merthyr Tydfil9,430
Monmouthshire9,465
Neath and Port Talbot20,810
Newport22,985
Pembrokeshire26,943
Powys16,586
Rhondda Cynon Taff38,661
Swansea52,344
Torfaen7,729
Vale of Glamorgan30,658
Wrexham14,500

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order sets out the basis for calculating the permitted totals of rebates or allowances for the year 1996/1997 for authorities granting rebates or allowances under Part VIII of the Social Security Administration Act 1992. The Order limits the amount by which the housing benefit payments may be increased on the exercise of the discretions provided by regulation 61(2) and (3) of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987, and to war widows through modified schemes.

This Order does not impose a charge on businesses.