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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-amendment-order-2022/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/983",
  "legislation_title": "The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-amendment-order-2022",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/562) (“the 1998 Order”) which provides for the calculation and payment of housing benefit subsidy to local authorities in England, Wales and Scotland which administer housing benefit. Section 140F(2) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5) (“the Act”) authorises the making, revocation or varying of an Order before, during or after the year to which it relates.\nArticle 3 updates the definition of “HBAP” in article 2 of the 1998 Order to refer to the appropriate version of the Housing Benefit Assurance Process, published on 31st March 2022.\nArticle 4 and Schedule 1 substitute Schedule 1 to the 1998 Order which prescribes the sums to be used in the calculation of subsidy for the year beginning with 1st April 2021.\nArticle 5 and Schedule 2 substitute Schedule 1ZB to the 1998 Order, which prescribes a system for the making of additional payments of subsidy to authorities administering alerts relating to the earnings and pension entitlement of claimants for housing benefit. Substituted paragraph 2 of that Schedule has effect for the purposes of determining additional amounts of subsidy payable for the year beginning with 1st April 2022. The amounts were notified by the Secretary of State to local authorities on 17th June 2022.\nArticle 6 and Schedule 3 substitute Schedule 1ZC to the 1998 Order. This updates the definition of “HBAAI” in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1ZC to the 1998 Order to refer to the most recent version of the Housing Benefit Award Accuracy Initiative, published on 14th May 2021. Substituted paragraph 2 of that Schedule prescribes a system for the making of additional payments of subsidy to authorities verifying the accuracy of information held in respect of the household, income and capital, and general financial circumstances of claimants for housing benefit. It has effect for the purposes of determining additional amounts of subsidy payable for the year beginning with 1st April 2021. The amounts were notified by the Secretary of State to local authorities on 22nd October 2021.\nArticle 7 and Schedule 4 substitute Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order. This has effect for the purposes of determining subsidy payable for the year beginning with 1st April 2022 for authorities in Wales. The substituted Schedule updates the rebate proportion figure for 2022/2023 to 0.528 and sets out revised specified amounts “O” and guideline rent increases “P” used when calculating deductions from subsidy under paragraph 2 of substituted Schedule.\nHard copies of the circulars referenced in this Order are available by writing to the Department for Work and Pensions, Local Authority Partnership, Engagement and Delivery Division, Room B120D, Warbreck House, Warbreck Hill, Blackpool, FY2 0YE or by emailing lawelfare.lafunding@dwp.gov.uk.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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