The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) and Council Tax Benefit (Permitted Total) (Pensions for War Widows) Amendment Order 1995
This Order sets out the basis for calculating the permitted total of rent rebates, rent allowances and council tax benefit for the year 1995/1996 for authorities modifying the housing benefit and council tax benefit schemes under sections 134(8)(b) and 139(6)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 in respect of the extension of those powers by regulations 7 and 8 of the Income-related Benefits Schemes Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2792), which extend those powers to modify those schemes so as to disregard as income for the purposes of those schemes the whole or part of a pension payable to a woman as a widow under the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/883).