An additional allocation of £4 million, €5.08 million, was made available in the 1998 letters of determination to six of the eight health boards to meet the costs of arrears payments in respect of the full implementation of the Health (Nursing Homes) Act, 1990, and subsequent regulations. These arrears payments arose from an incorrect application within these board areas of article 8.2 of the Nursing Home (Subvention) Regulations, 1993 which allows health boards disregard a sum equivalent to 0.2 of the old age non-contributory pension when assessing means and calculating the amount of subvention to be paid. Of this allocation, a sum of £750,000, €952,304, was provided to the Western Health Board.