{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-77",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-77.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/5",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Administration Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992",
  "path": "section/77",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Shortfall in benefits",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may make provision as to any case where a billing authority or a local authority in Scotland has allowed council tax benefit to a person and the amount allowed is less than the amount to which he is entitled in respect of the benefit.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(1) substituted (1.4.1993) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), s. 118(4), Sch. 9 para. 16(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(1) substituted (1.4.1996) by Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), s. 814(2), Sch. 13 para. 175(3); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 77(2)(3) repealed (1.4.1993) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), s. 118(4), Sch. 9 para. 16(2), Sch. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 77(2) modified (7.4.2025) by S.I. 2003/495, reg. 3 (as amended by The Child Benefit and Guardian's Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/207), regs. 1, 3(2) (with reg. 3(5)(6)))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/5/section/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:26.977425+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."
}