# The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998, Article 14: Backdated benefit

Extent: E+W+S

(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), where—
(a) during the relevant year an authority has, under regulation 83(12) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, regulation 64(13) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations... (time and manner of claiming) , treated any claim as made on a day earlier than that on which it is made; and
(b) any part of that authority’s qualifying expenditure is attributable to such earlier period,
for the purposes of article 13(1)(b)(iii), the appropriate amount for the relevant year in respect of such part shall be 100 per cent. of the qualifying expenditure so attributable.
(2) This article shall not apply in in relation to expenditure to which article 17(2), 17A(2), 17B(2), 17C(2) or 18(1)(b)(iii) or paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 applies.
(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/562/article/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-order-1998/article-14
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