The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 No. 213

[F1 PART 8A E+W+S Benefit cap

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 8A inserted (15.4.2013) by The Benefit Cap (Housing Benefit) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2994), regs. 1, 2(5) (as amended by S.I. 2013/388, reg. 2, Sch. para. 51; S.I. 2013/546, regs. 1, 2; and S.I. 2013/591, art. 2(1), Sch. para. 48(2))

Circumstances in which a benefit cap will apply E+W+S

75A.   Unless regulation 75E or 75F applies, a benefit cap applies where the relevant authority makes a determination that during the reference period the total amount of welfare benefits to which—

(a) where the claimant is a member of a couple, each member of the couple is or jointly are entitled; or

(b) in any other case, the claimant is entitled,

exceeds the relevant amount.]