The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) (No. 2) Order 1993

Backdated benefit

19.  Where–

(a) during the relevant year an appropriate authority has, under paragraph (18) of regulation 60 of the Community Charge Benefits Regulations (time and manner in which claims are to be made), treated any claim for a community charge benefit as made on a day earlier than that on which it is made; and

(b) any part of that appropriate authority’s community charge benefit qualifying expenditure is attributable to such earlier period,

for the purposes of article 18(b)(ii), the appropriate amount for the relevant year in respect of such part shall be 25 per cent. of the community charge benefit qualifying expenditure so attributable.