The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

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75CA.—(1) The relevant amount is determined by dividing the applicable annual limit by 52 and rounding that amount by disregarding any amount of less than half a penny and treating any amount of half a penny or more as a whole penny.

(2) The applicable annual limit is—

(a)£15,410 in the case of single claimants resident in Greater London;

(b)£23,000 in the case of all other claimants resident in Greater London;

(c)£13,400 in the case of single claimants not resident in Greater London;

(d)£20,000 in the case of all other claimants not resident in Greater London.

(3) For the purposes of section 96 of the 2012 Act (benefit cap) and this regulation a claimant is resident in Greater London if—

(a)the dwelling that the claimant normally occupies as the claimant’s home is in Greater London; or

(b)where the claimant is treated as occupying more than one dwelling as the claimant’s home pursuant to regulation 7(6) (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home), one of those dwellings is in Greater London.]]

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