The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2020

Amendment of the Rent Officers (Universal Credit Functions) Order 2013

4.—(1) The Rent Officers (Universal Credit Functions) Order 2013(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 2A of article 3 (broad rental market area determinations), for “2(2A) or (2B)” substitute “2(2)”.

(3) In Schedule 1 (local housing allowance determinations)—

(a) in paragraph 2 (local housing allowance for category of accommodation in paragraph 1), for sub-paragraphs (2A), (2B), (3), and (3A) substitute—

“(2) The local housing allowance for any category of accommodation is the lowest of—

(a) the rent at the 30th percentile determined in accordance with paragraph 3;

(b) the local housing allowance last determined for that category of accommodation (or, where the allowance is redetermined under article 6 (redeterminations), the allowance as so redetermined), increased by 1.7%; and

(c) for a category of accommodation listed in column 1 of the following table, the amount listed in column 2 of that table (maximum local housing allowance)—

1. Category of accommodation as in paragraph 1	2. Maximum local housing allowance for that accommodation
paragraph 1(a) (one bedroom, shared accommodation)	£1,218.57
paragraph 1(b) (one bedroom, exclusive use)	£1,218.57
paragraph 1(c) (two bedrooms)	£1,413.54
paragraph 1(d) (three bedrooms)	£1,657.25
paragraph 1(e) (four bedrooms)	£1,949.71”

; and

(b) omit paragraph 5A.

(1)

S.I. 2013/382. Paragraph (2A) of article 3 was inserted by S.I. 2016/1179. Relevant amendments of Schedule 1 were made by S.I. 2013/2978, 2015/1753, 2016/1179, 2017/1323 and 2018/1332.