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

Community charge benefit applicable amount

4.  Where the total of all the housing benefit applicable amounts calculated under Schedule 1 and the amounts calculated under paragraphs 2 and 3 is less than, or more than, for appropriate authorities—

(a) in England, £98,000,000;

(b) in Wales £4,340,000;

the amount of the community charge benefit applicable amount for an appropriate authority to which paragraph 3 does not apply shall be calculated, subject to paragraphs 5 and 6, in accordance with the following formula—

Where—

• G is the total of the housing benefit applicable amount calculated under Schedule 1 and the community charge benefit applicable amount calculated under paragraph 2 in respect of that appropriate authority;

• H is the total of the housing benefit applicable amounts calculated under Schedule 1 and the community charge benefit applicable amounts calculated under paragraph 2 in respect of all appropriate authorities in England and Wales, as the case may be, to which paragraph 3 does not apply;

• J is the balance of the total housing benefit applicable amounts calculated under Schedule 1 and the community charge benefit applicable amounts calculated under paragraph 2 for appropriate authorities in England and Wales, as the case may be, after deduction of the housing benefit and the community charge benefit applicable amounts for such appropriate authorities to which paragraph 3 applies.

• K is the housing benefit applicable amount calculated under Schedule 1 for that appropriate authority.