The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Regulations 1991

Prescribed particulars relating to claims for Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit subsidy for the relevant year

16.  The total rent allowance expenditure in the relevant year—

(a) which is attributable to weekly eligible rents which do not exceed any determination of a rent officer of a reasonable market rent or notional rent, under the Orders to which paragraph 15 refers;

(b) which is attributable to the difference between the reasonable market rent for the accommodation and the comparable rent for suitably sized properties in cases where the rent officer has determined that accommodation is unreasonably large and is paid for a period of up to 13 calendar weeks;

(c) which is attributable to that part of the weekly eligible rents which exceeded the rent officer’s determination of a reasonable market rent or notional rent, in respect of which no restriction under regulation 11 (restrictions of unreasonable payments) or regulation 12 (restrictions on rent increases) of the 1987 Regulations would be made(1) other than expenditure to which sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph refers;

(d) which is attributable to that part of the weekly eligible rents which exceeded a rent officer’s determination of a reasonable market rent or notional rent, but excluding amounts to which sub-paragraphs (b) or (c) refer;

(e) which is attributable to the eligible rents in respect of deregulated housing association tenancies not referred to the rent officer;

(f) which is attributable to cases subject to referral to the rent officer for a determination but where no such determination has been obtained.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1971; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1989/566 and 1990/546.