{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/213",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Applicable amounts",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulations 23, 24, 80 and 81 and Schedule A1 (polygamous marriages, patients, calculation of weekly amounts, rent free periods and treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees), a claimant's weekly applicable amount shall be the aggregate of such of the following amounts as may apply in his case—\n(a) an amount in respect of himself or, if he is a member of a couple, an amount in respect of both of them, determined in accordance with paragraph 1(1), (2) or (3), as the case may be, of Schedule 3;\n(b) an amount determined in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 in respect of children or young persons who are members of his family;\n(c) if he is a member of a family of which at least one member is a child or young person, an amount determined in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 3 (family premium);\n(d) the amount of any premiums which may be applicable to him, determined in accordance with Parts 3 and 4 of Schedule 3 (premiums).\n(e) the amount of the support component which may be applicable to him in accordance with Part 5 of Schedule 3 (the component);\n(f) the amount of any transitional addition which may be applicable to him in accordance with Parts 7 and 8 of Schedule 3 (transitional addition).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 22(1): reg. 22 renumbered as reg. 22(1) (6.4.2017) by The Social Security (Restrictions on Amounts for Children and Qualifying Young Persons) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/376), regs. 1, 7(2)(a) (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 22(1)(b) substituted (6.4.2017) by The Social Security (Restrictions on Amounts for Children and Qualifying Young Persons) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/376), regs. 1, 7(2)(a) (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22(1)(b) substituted (6.4.2026) by The Social Security (Removal of Two Child Limit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/316), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 22(c) omitted (1.5.2016) by virtue of The Housing Benefit (Abolition of the Family Premium and date of claim) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1857), regs. 1(b), 2(1)(a) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 22(e) substituted (3.4.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 6(3) (with Sch. 2 paras. 1-7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 22(f) added (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1907), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 69(3) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 22(2)-(5) omitted (6.4.2026) by virtue of The Social Security (Removal of Two Child Limit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/316), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), regulation 7 and Schedule 4, paragraph 2, for regulation 10A and Schedule A1 (claims by refugees)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/213/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:43.605354+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."
}