The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

[F1 [F2 Determination of the relevant amount E+W+S

75CA.— (1) The relevant amount is determined by dividing the applicable annual limit by 52 and rounding that amount by disregarding any amount of less than half a penny and treating any amount of half a penny or more as a whole penny.

(2) The applicable annual limit is—

(a) £15,410 in the case of single claimants resident in Greater London;

(b) £23,000 in the case of all other claimants resident in Greater London;

(c) £13,400 in the case of single claimants not resident in Greater London;

(d) £20,000 in the case of all other claimants not resident in Greater London.

(3) For the purposes of section 96 of the 2012 Act (benefit cap) and this regulation a claimant is resident in Greater London if—

(a) the dwelling that the claimant normally occupies as the claimant’s home is in Greater London; or

(b) where the claimant is treated as occupying more than one dwelling as the claimant’s home pursuant to regulation 7(6) (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home), one of those dwellings is in Greater London.]]

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))

F2 Reg. 75CA inserted (7.11.2016) by The Benefit Cap (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/909), regs. 1(1), 2(3)