The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefits (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 1992
These Regulations make further amendments to the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1971) and the Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1321) so that with respect to housing benefit and community charge benefits—they provide for the calculation of the amount to be deducted in respect of income tax in relation to a claimant’s earnings to take account of the lower rate of income tax and define the expression “lower rate” (regulations 2, 5, 6, 7, 14, 16, 17 and 18);they specify certain further legislative changes which relate to social security contributions and which authorities may temporarily disregard when calculating a claimant’s income (regulations 4 and 15);they amend the provisions which specify how notional capital attributed to a claimant is to be reduced, by providing that such notional capital shall be further reduced to take account of the amount of any disability working allowance to which he would have been entitled but for the effect of his notional capital on his entitlement to disability working allowance (regulations 8 and 19).