The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1994

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I GENERAL

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and interpretation

3. PART II HOUSING BENEFIT SUBSIDY

   1. 2. Interpretation of Part II

   2. 3. Amount of housing benefit subsidy

   3. 4. Rebates and allowances

   4. 5. Backdated benefit

   5. 6. Disproportionate rent increase

   6. 7. Treatment of high rents

   7. 8. Rent officers' determinations

   8. 9. Homeless cases

   9. 10. Additions to housing benefit subsidy

   10. 11. Deductions to be made in calculating housing benefit subsidy in respect of rebates or allowances

   11. 12. Deduction from housing benefit subsidy

   12. 13. Modification of housing benefit subsidy on payments in excess of entitlement

4. PART II I COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT SUBSIDY

   1. 14. Interpretation of Part III

   2. 15. Amount of council tax benefit subsidy

   3. 16. Council tax benefit

   4. 17. Backdated benefit

   5. 18. Additions to council tax benefit subsidy

   6. 19. Deductions to be made in calculating subsidy in respect of council tax benefit

   7. 20. Deduction from council tax benefit subsidy

5. Signature

6. 1. SCHEDULE 1

      CALCULATION OF HOUSING BENEFIT SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF ADMINISTRATION COSTS

      1. PART I GENERAL AND INTERPRETATION

         1. 1. (1) The additional sum which may be paid to an...

      2. PART II APPLICABLE AND FURTHER AMOUNTS

         1. 2. Housing benefit applicable amount

         2. 3. Further amount

      3. PART II I HOUSING BENEFIT BONUS AMOUNT

         1. 4. Housing benefit bonus

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      CALCULATION OF COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF ADMINISTRATION COSTS

      1. PART I GENERAL AND INTERPRETATION

         1. 1. (1) The additional sum which may be paid to an...

      2. PART II APPLICABLE AND FURTHER AMOUNTS

         1. 2. Council tax benefit applicable amount

         2. 3. Further amount

         3. 4. Calculation of applicable and further amounts

         4. 5. Where the total of all the housing benefit amounts calculated...

         5. 6. Where, in the case of an appropriate authority in England...

         6. 7. Until the council tax benefit amounts under this Part as...

      3. PART III COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT BONUS AMOUNT

         1. 8. Council tax benefit bonus

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF HOUSING BENEFIT SUBSIDY PAYABLE IN RESPECT OF CERTAIN AUTHORITIES IN SCOTLAND

   4. SCHEDULE 4

      CALCULATION OF DEDUCTIONS FROM HOUSING BENEFIT SUBSIDY AND COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF PERIOD OVERRUNS

      1. PART I GENERAL AND INTERPRETATION

         1. 1. In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires— “period overrun”...

      2. PART II DEDUCTIONS

         1. 2. The percentage referred to in article 4(3)(a) for an authority...

         2. 3. The percentage referred to in article 4(3)(b) for an authority...

         3. 4. The percentage referred to in article 16(2) for an appropriate...

      3. PART III CALCULATIONS AND TABLE

         1. 5. (1) In the heading to column 1 in the Table...

   5. SCHEDULE 5

      THRESHOLD ABOVE WHICH REDUCED HOUSING BENEFIT SUBSIDY IS PAYABLE ON RENT ALLOWANCES

   6. SCHEDULE 6

      RENT OFFICERS' DETERMINATIONS

      1. 1. Calculation of the appropriate amount

      2. 2. Rent officers' reasonable market rent determination

      3. 3. Where the rent officer determines a reasonable market rent, and...

      4. 4. Rent officers' reasonable market rent and size determination

      5. 5. No restriction on unreasonable rents or on rent increases

      6. 6. Failure to apply for a rent officer’s determination

      7. 7. Relevant date

      8. 8. Termination date

      9. 9. Apportionment

      10. 10. Interpretation

   7. SCHEDULE 7

      AMOUNT BY REFERENCE TO WHICH APPROPRIATE MAXIMUM AMOUNT IS DETERMINED

   8. SCHEDULE 8

      PRESCRIBED CASELOAD AND CLAIMS FIGURES

   9. SCHEDULE 9

      PRESCRIBED FICUTES FOR THE CALCULATION OF THE APPLICABLE AMOUNT

   10. SCHEDULE 10

   11. SCHEDULE 11

       PRESCRIBED FIGURES FOR THE CALCULATION OF THE BONUS AMOUNTS

7. Explanatory Note