{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-and-universal-credit-functions-amendment-order-2018/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1332",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-and-universal-credit-functions-amendment-order-2018",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1984), the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Scotland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1995) and the Rent Officers (Universal Credit Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/382) (“the Orders”) to make changes to the manner in which a local housing allowance is determined.\nArticles 2, 3 and 4 amend the Orders to provide that, for dwellings (or accommodation, in relation to Universal Credit) in specified categories in specified broad rental market areas, the local housing allowance is the lowest of (a) the rent as last determined plus 3%, (b) the maximum allowance applicable to the dwelling and (c) the rent at the 30th percentile, determined in accordance with the Orders.\nThese Articles also provide revised amounts of the maximum housing allowance for specified categories of dwellings (or accommodation, in relation to Universal Credit).\nFor other dwellings, the local housing allowance is the lower of the rent as last determined and the rent at the 30th percentile, determined in accordance with the Orders.\nAn impact assessment has not been provided for this instrument as it has no impact on business or civil society organisations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1332/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:50:41.272750+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."
}